THE GUIDE LANGUAGE

The Guide language is an object-oriented language dedicated for progra mming distributed applications on top of the Comandos platform. This l anguage faithfully reflects all the capabilities of the Comandos model . It combines the facilities of a strongly typed object model with a p owerful computational model. Key features of the language are: separat ion between types and classes, conformant subtyping, distribution tran sparency, concurrent activities, synchronization mechanism for shared objects, and exception handling. This paper presents the design choice s for the Guide language and discusses programming experience gained f rom the use of the language for the construction of distributed applic ations.