The Hermes Language in Outline Form

Abstract

Hermes is an experimental language for writing disgributed applications and systems. The language is fully described elsewhere[1]. This report summarizes the major features of The language and provides numerous short code fragments to illustrate the various constructs. Missing from this report is any discussion of user-defined constraints, which are in any case not yet supported in the prototype implementation we have developed. Those wishing to obtain the prototype software may do so via anonymous ftp to software.watson.ibm.com 1992; the files/pub/README.FTP and/pub/hermes/README provide further instructions. © 1992, ACM. All rights reserved.