AmbientTalk
{{language|AmbientTalk |strength=strong |safety=safe |express=explicit |compat=duck |checking=dynamic |parampass=value |gc=yes |LCT=yes}} AmbientTalk is a concurrent, distributed programming language designed specifically for mobile ad hoc networks. It's concurrency model is inspired by actors, and more specifically the event loop concurrency model of the [[E]] language. AmbientTalk has built-in support for distributed service discovery and (asynchronous) messaging.
The language was designed at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, primarily as a research framework for exploring new concurrent and distributed language features for highly dynamic, decentralized networks, such as wireless, mobile ad hoc networks.
The default implementation of AmbientTalk is a Java interpreter, which features full interoperability with the JVM, enabling AmbientTalk code to use existing Java libraries, and enabling Java code to use AmbientTalk as a distributed scripting language. Recent version of AmbientTalk also run on the Android OS, making AmbientTalk portable across a wide range of mobile phones.
==Trying AmbientTalk==
[http://ambienttalk.googlecode.com The open source AmbientTalk interpreter]
To run an AmbientTalk program:
$ iat program.at
To get a [[REPL]] (aka prompt, shell, interactive interpreter):
$ iat
==See Also==
- [http://ambienttalk.googlecode.com Open source google code project]
- [http://soft.vub.ac.be/amop AmbientTalk home page] at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.