A Survey of Concurrent Object-oriented Languages (Cools)

The progress in hardware and networking has changed the computing environment from sequential to parallel. During the last decade object oriented programing has made a widespread influence. Many attempts have been made to combine both developments. The main objective was to provide the advantages of object oriented software design at the increased power of parallel machines. This survey covers the well known characteristics of both object oriented paradigm and parallel programming and then mark the design space with possible combinations by identifying various interdependencies and key concepts. The survey presents the characteristics and feature tables for 111 proposed languages.