Programming Language for the Development of Distributed Real-Time Applications Dedicated to Embedded Systems.

The paper highlights the specific problems raised by distributed systems programming and also the way in which these particularities have influenced the definition of new programming languages, specially dedicated for this type of programming. For this purpose the concepts introduced in a number of approximately 20 programming languages are analyzed, together with the evolution of these concepts from the first languages based on communication through message transmission (CSP, DP or Ada) to the object oriented languages or their distributed extensions (Concurrent C++, Concurrent Smalltalk or Java). In the final part, based on these ideas, a new programming language is defined, which is currently being implemented in the programming languages laboratory of "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]