I- A MULTIPARADIGM LANGUAGE FOR OBJECT-ORIENTED DECLARATIVE PROGRAMMING( )

This paper presents a multiparadigm language I+ which is an integratio n of the three major programming paradigms: object-oriented, logic and functional. I+ has an object-oriented framework in which the notions of classes, objects, methods, inheritance and message passing are supp orted. Methods may be specified as clauses or functions, thus the two declarative paradigms are incorporated at the method level of the obje ct-oriented paradigm. In addition, two levels of parallelism may be ex ploited in I+ programming. Therefore I+ is a multiparadigm language fo r object-oriented declarative programming as well as parallel programm ing.