Strand is a high-level symbolic language for

parallel computing Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. There are several different fo ...

, similar in syntax to

Prolog Prolog is a logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. Prolog has its roots in first-order logic, a formal logic, and unlike many other programming languages, Prolog is intended primarily ...

. Artificial Intelligence Ltd were awarded the

British Computer Society Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957 BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in infor ...

br>Award for Technical Innovation 1989
for Strand88. The language was created by computer scientists Ian Foster and Stephen Taylor.

Implementations

Felix Winkelmann's web site - StrandFelix Winkelmann's GitLab repository

Implementations

Further reading