Glish

Glish is an interpretive language for building loosely-coupled

distributed systems from modular, event-oriented programs.

Written by Vern Paxson [email protected]. These programs are

written in conventional languages such as C, C++, or Fortran.

Glish scripts can create local and remote processes and

control their communication. Glish also provides a full,

array-oriented programming language (similar to S) for

manipulating binary data sent between the processes. In

general Glish uses a centralised communication model where

interprocess communication passes through the Glish

interpreter, allowing dynamic modification and rerouting of

data values, but Glish also supports point-to-point links

between processes when necessary for high performance.

Version 2.4.1 includes an interpreter, C++ class library

and user manual. It requires C++ and there are ports to

SunOS, Ultrix, an HP/UX (rusty).

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["Glish: A User-Level Software Bus for Loosely-Coupled

Distributed Systems," Vern Paxson and Chris Saltmarsh,

Proceedings of the 1993 Winter USENIX Conference, San Diego,

CA, January, 1993].

(1993-11-01)