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Strand (programming language)

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Strand is a high-level symbolic language for parallel computing, similar in syntax to Prolog.

Artificial Intelligence Ltd were awarded the British Computer Society Award for Technical Innovation 1989 for Strand88. The language was created computer scientists Ian Foster and Stephen Taylor. (Ian Foster is now well known for the Globus project in computational Grids).