An overview of the GCP programming language

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of GCP (Guarded Communicating Processes), a language for distributed applications programming, which has been defined deriving its control mechanisms from Hoare's CSP (with new communication primitives and a new distributed termination convention) and embedding them in a fully defined concurrent programming language. Besides an easy retargetable compiler the GCP environment consists of a configurator/distributor to distribute and activate the processes constituting an application and of a run-time support.