Sisal 3.2: functional language for scientific parallel programming.

Sisal 3.2 is a new input language of system of functional programming (SFP) which is under development at the Institute of Informatics Systems in Novosibirsk as an interactive visual environment for supporting of scientific parallel programming. This paper contains an overview of Sisal 3.2 and a description of its new features compared with previous versions of the SFP input language such as the multidimensional array support, new abstractions like parametric types and generalised procedures, more flexible user-defined reductions, improved interoperability with other programming languages and specification of several optimising source text annotations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]