Implementing Remote Evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1990, Pages 710-722

  Stamos, James W ^a,b   Gifford, David K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; linguistic support; procedure stub; remote evaluation; remote procedure call

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES--HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

PROCEDURE TRANSMISSION; REMOTE EVALUATION; REV PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE CONSTRUCT;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL;

EID: 0025464144     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.56097     Document Type: Article

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