Argus is a

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created at

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Barbara Liskov Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939 as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the development of the Liskov ...

between 1982 and 1988, in collaboration with

Maurice Herlihy Maurice Peter Herlihy (born 4 January 1954) is a computer scientist active in the field of multiprocessor synchronization. Herlihy has contributed to areas including theoretical foundations of wait-free synchronization, linearizable data structu ...

, Paul Johnson, Robert Scheifler, and

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. It is an extension of the CLU language, and utilizes most of the same

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and

semantics Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy Philosophy (f ...

. Argus was designed to support the creation of distributed programs, by encapsulating related procedures within

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called ''guardians'', and by supporting

atomic operations In concurrent programming, an operation (or set of operations) is linearizable if it consists of an ordered list of invocation and response events (event), that may be extended by adding response events such that: # The extended list can be re-e ...

called ''actions''.

References

External links

Argus Reference Manual
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