摘要: LUCID is a new dataflow language. It was designed to exploit the capabilities of coming generation supercomputers - multi-processor ''dataflow'' machines which are (potentially) hundreds or thousands times more powerful than conventional, single-processor ''von Neumann'' and need languages in highly parallel algorithms can be easily expressed. functional language, but one supports variables, i.e., values change with time. programmers therefore use iteration (repetition) as well recursion. The statements program equations thought defining network processors communication lines. LUCID's approach programming has common that UNIX (TM) shell, its filters pipelines, imperative, one-step-at-a-time conventional language like C PASCAL. primary objective this book prove Dataflow real alternative sequential/imperative computing, expressed naturally concisely LUCID.