Comega
Cω
is a research programming language. It is pronounced "c" followed by "
-m
g
,
-m
g".
It can be written (and searched for) as Cw or the "Comega language".
A Cω compiler preview
is now available for download.
You can also browse the documentation online.
News
Take a look at LINQ and see the Cω-like data access features that Microsoft is proposing for the next release of Visual Studio. (here)
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Read some nice comments by Anders Hejlsberg (designer of C#) on Cω
here.
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Read about Cω on MSDN.
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Read about Cω in Infoworld.
References
Cω
is an extension of
C# in two areas:
- A control flow extension for asynchronous wide-area
concurrency (formerly known as Polyphonic C#):
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Modern Concurrency Abstractions for C#. Nick Benton, Luca Cardelli, Cedric Fournet.
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©2004 ACM
[
PDF]
(Revised version.) To appear in TOPLAS.
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©2002 Springer
[
PDF]
In: Boris Magnusson, Editor: ECOOP 2002 - Object-Oriented Programming, 16th
European Conference, Malaga, Spain, June 10-14 2002, Proceedings. Lecture Notes
in Computer Science 2374, Springer, 2002. ISBN 3-540-43759-2. pp. 415-440.
- A data type extension for XML and table manipulation
(formerly known as Xen and as X#):
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The essence of data access in Cω. Gavin Bierman, Erik Meijer, and Wolfram Schulte.
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©2005 Springer
[
PDF]
In: Andrew Black, Editor: ECOOP 2005 - Object-Oriented Programming, 19th
European Conference, Glasgow, UK, July 2005, Proceedings. Lecture Notes
in Computer Science 3586, Springer, 2005. pp. 287-311.
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Programming with Rectangles, Triangles,
and Circles.
Gavin Bierman, Erik Meijer, and Wolfram Schulte.
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©2004 XMLconference
[
HTML]
In Proc. XML 2003.
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Unifying Tables, Objects and Documents. Erik Meijer, Wolfram Schulte and Gavin Bierman.
Reasons why these kinds of extensions (and possibly
more) are related, are described in this talk:
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Transitions in Programming Models. Luca Cardelli.
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[
PDF]
New University of Lisbon, November 13, 2003.
Project Members
- Nick Benton
- Gavin Bierman
- Luca Cardelli
- Erik Meijer
- Claudio Russo
- Wolfram Schulte
