BCOOPL: Basic concurrent object-oriented programming language

✍ Scribed by Hans de Bruin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 281 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0644
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(20000710)30:8<849::aid-spe318>3.0.co;2-0

✦ Synopsis

A small, object-oriented language is introduced: BCOOPL (Basic Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming Language). This language is specifically targeted to support component-oriented programming. The main design goal of BCOOPL was to provide a small, but powerful set of language features that supports the construction of high-quality components through well-established software engineering practices, which include the separation of interfaces and implementations, weakly-coupled objects, and abstraction. A number of design patterns based on these principles is actually built in the language. In particular, the observer, the mediator and the bridge are supported directly. This provides a strong foundation on which higher level component specification languages can be built. BCOOPL has a long research history. Its roots can be traced back to path expressions, and the concurrent object-oriented programming languages Procol and Talktalk. As a result, BCOOPL only integrates essential language features that blend well and have proven their value in practice.