xappings, xectors, xets

Question

In the old *Lisp on the connection machine there was an interface to vectors, sets etc. that allowed computation over collections in a way similar to MapReduce (with alpha and beta as the apply and reduction respectively). Are there resources on the internet that describe these in detail? Are there any implementations running on modern systems (linux etc?)

Answer 1

*Lisp

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/starlisp/sim/

Starsim: http://examples.franz.com/index.html