Concurrent Orchestration in Haskell

John Launchbury presented the Orc language for concurrent scripting at the Haskell Workshop, 2010 in Baltimore.

Concurrent Orchestration in Haskell

John Launchbury

Trevor Elliott

The talk slides are available in PDF or online.

We present a concurrent scripting language embedded in Haskell, emulating the functionality of the Orc orchestration language by providing many-valued (real) non-determinism in the context of concurrent effects. We provide many examples of its use, as well as a brief description of how we use the embedded Orc DSL in practice. We describe the abstraction layers of the implementation, and use the fact that we have a layered approach to establish and demonstrate algebraic properties satisfied by the combinators.

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[Haskell Workshop and CUFP 2010]

[...] Things like the Hoopl library for implementing dataflow optimzations in compilers, and the Orc DSL for concurrent scripting. The Haskell systems hackers have made great progress and doing some [...]