Analyzing the State Behavior of Programs

It is generally agreed that the unrestricted use of state can make a program hard to understand, hard to compile, and hard to execute, and that these difficulties increase in the presence of parallel hardware. This problem has led some to suggest that constructs that allow state should be banished f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bawden, Alan
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41478