List of concurrent and parallel programming languages

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Template:SHORTDESC: This article lists concurrent and parallel programming languages, categorizing them by a defining paradigm. Concurrent and parallel programming languages involve multiple timelines. Such languages provide synchronization constructs whose behavior is defined by a parallel execution model. A concurrent programming language is defined as one which uses the concept of simultaneously executing processes or threads of execution as a means of structuring a program. A parallel language is able to express programs that are executable on more than one processor. Both types are listed, as concurrency is a useful tool in expressing parallelism, but it is not necessary. In both cases, the features must be part of the language syntax and not an extension such as a library (libraries such as the posix-thread library implement a parallel execution model but lack the syntax and grammar required to be a programming language).

The following categories aim to capture the main, defining feature of the languages contained, but they are not necessarily orthogonal.

Coordination languages

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Dataflow programming

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Main article: Dataflow programming
  • CAL
  • E (also object-oriented)
  • Joule (also distributed)
  • LabVIEW (also synchronous, also object-oriented)
  • Lustre (also synchronous)
  • Preesm (also synchronous)
  • Signal (also synchronous)
  • SISAL
  • BMDFM

Distributed computing

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Main article: Distributed computing

Event-driven and hardware description

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Main articles: Event-driven programming and Hardware Description Language

Functional programming

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Main article: Functional programming

Logic programming

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Main article: Concurrent logic programming

Monitor-based

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Main article: Monitor (synchronization)

Multi-threaded

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Main article: Multithreading (software)

Object-oriented programming

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Main article: Object-oriented programming

Partitioned global address space (PGAS)

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Main article: Partitioned global address space

Message passing

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Main article: Message passing

Actor model

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Main article: Actor model

CSP-based

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Main article: Communicating sequential processes

APIs/frameworks

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These application programming interfaces support parallelism in host languages.

See also

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References

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