TI The Raven System 

LT TR-92-15 

AU Donald Acton 

AU Terry Coatta 

AU Gerald Neufeld 

MN August 

DY 31 

YR 1992 

PA 43 

OR UBC 

AB This report describes the distributed object-oriented system,
Raven. Raven is both a distributed operating system as well as a
programming language. The language will be familiar to C
programmers in that it has many constructs similar to the C
programming language. Raven uses a simple, uniform object model
in which all entities, at least conceptually, are objects. The
object model supports classes for implementation inheritance and
type checking. Both static and dynamic typing as well as static
and dynamic method binding is supported. Object behavior is
defined by the class of the object. The language is compiled
(rather than interpreted) and supports several features that
improve performance. Support also exists for parallel and
distributed computing as well as persistent data. Raven is
designed specifically for high-performance parallel and
distributed applications. .br Note: The Raven System has
undergone many changes since this report was published.  The
report acurately reflects the basic operating prciples of Raven,
but the syntactic details of Raven are no longer the same.  

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