The VAL Language: Description and Analysis

Abstract

VAL is a high-level, function-based language designed for use on data flow computers. A data flow computer has many small processors organized to cooperate in the execution of a single computation. A computation is represented by its data flow graph; each operator in a graph is scheduled for execution on one of the processors after all of its operands' values are known. VAL promotes the identification of concurrency in algorithms and simplifies the mapping into data flow graphs.