The Linda model-a swarm of active tuples surrounded by a cloud of passive ones-is suggestive in itself.

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• Linda is a simpler, more powerful and more elegant model than any of these four alternatives (message-passing, concurrent objects, logic languages, functional).claim0.846
  The central thesis of the paper, stated explicitly in the introduction.
• Linda is a model of process creation and coordination that is orthogonal to the base language in which it’s embedded.quote0.839
  Load-bearing definition of Linda's relation to the base language.
• Linda (tuple space model)concept0.808
  A model of process creation and coordination based on generative communication and tuple spaces; the central topic of the paper.
• Linda Programming Modelconcept0.784
• The Linda model doesn't care how the multiple execution threads in a Linda program compute what they compute; it deals only with how these execution threads are created and organized into a coherent program.concept0.771
  Foundational principle: Linda's orthogonality to base language and computation model is its core strength.
• The Actors model covers fewer programming patterns than Linda, but in a more complicated way.claim0.765
  Critique that Actors is less expressive yet more complex.
• Linda achieves scalable performance on distributed-memory machines.claim0.753
  Supported by reported speedup through 64 nodes on iPSC/2.
• Linda unifies process creation, inter-process communication and synchronization within tuple-space operations.claim0.753
  Key advantage: the same operations handle all three aspects of parallel coordination.