Go! (programming language): Difference between revisions

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The authors of Go! describe it as "a [[multi-paradigm programming language]] that is oriented to the needs of programming secure, production quality, agent based applications. It is [[multi-threaded]], strongly typed and [[higher order function|higher order]] (in the functional programming sense). It has relation, function and action procedure definitions. Threads execute action procedures, calling functions and querying relations as need be. Threads in different agents communicate and coordinate using asynchronous messages. Threads within the same agent can also use shared dynamic relations acting as [[Linda (coordination language)|Linda]]-style [[tuple space|tuple stores]]."<ref name="aamas">{{cite journal |last1=Clark |first1=K.L. |last2=McCabe |first2=F.G. |year=2003 |title= Go! for multi-threaded deliberative agents |journal=International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AAMAS'03) |pages=964–965 |url=http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=860575.860747 | doi=10.1145/860575.860747 }}</ref>

The authors also propose that the language is suitable for representing [[Ontology (information science)|ontologies]] due to its integration of [[logic programming|logic]], [[functional programming|functional]], [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]] and [[imperative programming|imperative]] styles of programming. As a deliberate design choice, Go does not support type inheritance to reduce complexity. Thus, it is not an object oriented language even though it supports some typical OOP techniques such as combining data and operations as well as polymorphism. <ref name="applied">{{cite journal |last1=Clark |first1=K.L. |last2=McCabe |first2=F.G. |year=2006 |title=Ontology oriented programming in go! |journal=Applied Intelligence |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=189–204 |url=http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1127540 |doi=10.1145/860575.860747 }}</ref>

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