Abstract
Both the imperative (Fortran [1], APL [4], Matlab [5], etc.) and functional (Sisal [2], Id [6], EPL [7], etc.) language paradigms have attractive features. Imperative languages are able to easily express changing quantities, something which functional languages find more difficult. However, the side-effects of imperative languages makes parallelization more difficult than in functional languages. The EQ language is an attempt to blend these two paradigms, in order to try and achieve the advantages of both. While designed for sequential execution, it turns out that EQ makes the parallelism in a program explicit to the user, without introducing special “parallel” constructs. We feel this property makes EQ a good target for further parallel language research.
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