Modular Programming Languages

1. Front Matter

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2. The Development of Procedural Programming Languages Personal Contributions and Perspectives

   1. The Development of Procedural Programming Languages Personal Contributions and Perspectives

      • Niklaus Wirth

      Pages 1-10

3. Parallel and Distributed Computing

   1. Composable Message Semantics in Oberon

      • Markus Hof

      Pages 11-25

   2. Derivation of Secure Parallel Applications by Means of Module Embedding

      • Atanas Radenski

      Pages 26-37

   3. Mianjin: A Parallel Language with a Type System That Governs Global System Behaviour

      • Paul Roe, Clemens Szyperski

      Pages 38-50

   4. A Design Pattern and Programming Framework for Interactive Metacomputing

      • Spyros Lalis

      Pages 51-61

   5. Mobile Agents Based on Concurrent Constraint Programming

      • Marek Paralič

      Pages 62-75

4. Components

   1. Rethinking Our Trade and Science: From Developing Components to Component-Based Development

      • Clemens Szyperski

      Pages 76-76

   2. Explicit Namespaces

      • Franz Achermann, Oscar Nierstrasz

      Pages 77-89

   3. Stand-Alone Messages

      • Peter H. Fröhlich, Michael Franz

      Pages 90-103

   4. The Design of a COM-Oriented Module System

      • Riccardo Pucella

      Pages 104-118

   5. Oberon as an Implementation Language for COM Components: A Case Study in Language Interoperability

      • Jürg Gutknecht

      Pages 119-133

   6. Modularisation of Software Configuration Management

      • Henrik Bærbak Christensen

      Pages 134-146

5. Extensions and Applications

   1. Leonardo: A Framework for Modeling and Editing Graphical Components

      • Erich Oswald

      Pages 147-160

   2. OMX-FS: An Extended File System Architecture Based on a Generic Object Model

      • G. Rivera, M. Norrie

      Pages 161-174

   3. On Adding a Query Language to a Persistent Object System

      • Markus Knasmüller

      Pages 175-185

   4. Project C2 – A Survey of an Industrial Embedded Application with Native Oberon for PC

      • Josef Sedlacek, Jürg Gutknecht

      Pages 186-196

   5. System Architecture and Design Using Co-operating Groups of Real and Abstract Components

      • B. Kirk

      Pages 197-210

6. Compilers and Runtime Environments

   1. Abstraction and Modularization in the BETA Programming Language

      • Ole Lehrmann Madsen

      Pages 211-237

   2. Design of Multilingual Retargetable Compilers: Experience of the XDS Framework Evolution

      • Vitaly V. Mikheev

      Pages 238-249

Thecircleisclosed.The European Modula-2 Conference was originally launched with the goal of increasing the popularity of Modula-2, a programming language created by Niklaus Wirth and his team at ETH Zuric ¨ h as a successor of Pascal. For more than a decade, the conference has wandered through Europe, passing Bled,Slovenia,in1987,Loughborough,UK,in1990,Ulm,Germany,in1994,and Linz, Austria, in 1997. Now, at the beginning of the new millennium, it is back at its roots in Zuric ¨ h, Switzerland. While traveling through space and time, the conference has mutated. It has widened its scope and changed its name to Joint Modular Languages Conference (JMLC). With an invariant focus, though, on modularsoftwareconstructioninteaching,research,and“outthere”inindustry. This topic has never been more important than today, ironically not because of insu?cient language support but, quite on the contrary, due to a truly c- fusing variety of modular concepts o?ered by modern languages: modules, pa- ages, classes, and components, the newest and still controversial trend. “The recent notion of component is still very vaguely de?ned, so vaguely, in fact, that it almost seems advisable to ignore it.” (Wirth in his article “Records, Modules, Objects, Classes, Components” in honor of Hoare’s retirement in 1999). Clar- cation is needed.

• Component Systems
• Language Support
• Modula
• Modular Languages
• Modular Program Construction
• Modular Systems
• Oberon
• Pascal
• Procedural Programming Languages
• Programming Languages
• compiler
• distributed computing
• programming
• programming language

• Independent Software Architect, Zürich, Switzerland

  Wolfgang Weck

• ETH Zürich,  

  Jürg Gutknecht

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