The Comandos Supported Programming Languages

This report describes the three programming languages supported by the Comandos platform: C++; Eiffel; and the Comandos Object-Oriented Language. This report is published as Chapter 4. of The Comandos Distributed Application Platform Cahill, V., Balter, R., Harris, N. and Rousset de Pina, X. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993. Document No TCD-CS-93-34 The provision of programming language support was a key aspect of the Comandos project. Two different approaches to the provision of programming language support were considered in the framework of the project: the use of existing languages, and the provision of a new language environment. The first approach allows the facilities of the existing programming environment to be exploited and existing code to be reused where appropriate. However, because of the constraints imposed by using (or modifying) existing compilers, some features of the Comandos model cannot be fully integrated within an existing language. In contrast, defining ..