ACM Computing Surveys 28A(4), December 1996, http://www.acm.org/surveys/1996/ThomsenProgramming/. Copyright © 1996 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. See the permissions statement below.
Abstract: This paper is a revised and expanded version of my position statement for the ACM Strategic Directions workshop as a member of the concurrency working group.Concurrency theory has the potential for entering main stream computing as the need for programming languages with advanced and well understood concurrency models increas - particularly fueled by the emergence of mobile agents on the internet, but also because most systems in the future will be distributed and highly concurrent.
Categories and Subject Descriptors: D.1.3 [PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES]: Concurrent Programming - Distributed programming; D.2.2 [SOFTWARE ENGINEERING]: Tools and Techniques - Programmer workbench; D.3.1 [PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES]: Formal Definitions and Theory - Semantics; D.3.2 [PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES]: Language Classifications - Concurrent, distributed, and parallel languages; D.3.3 [PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES]: Language Constructs and Features - Concurrent programming structures; F.1.2 [COMPUTATION BY ABSTRACT DEVICES]: Modes of Computation - Parallelism and concurrency; F.3.1 [LOGICS AND MEANINGS OF PROGRAMS]: pecifying and Verifying and Reasoning about Programs - Specification techniques; F.3.3 [LOGICS AND MEANINGS OF PROGRAMS]: Studies of Program Constructs - Type structure.
General Terms: Concurrency theory, Verification tools, Programming languages.
Additional Key Words and Phrases: Multi paradigm programming, Type systems, Mobile agents.
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