The Ada 9X revision found the rendezvous mechanism too complex to implement as the communication mechanism in a distributed system. In this paper another distributed programming model, Linda, is related to the rendezvous mechanism. Linda can be used to allow tasks to communicate in a rendezvous like manner. Sequences of Linda operations that roughly corresponds to different rendezvous operations are given and a small extension of Linda is presented in order to handle more of the rendezvous constructs. Linda can be used to communicate across partitions as well as within partitions.
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