List of concurrent and parallel programming languages

This article lists concurrent and parallel programming languages, categorizing them by a defining paradigm. A concurrent programming language is defined as one which uses the concept of simultaneously executing processes or threads of execution as a means of structuring a program. A parallel language is able to express programs that are executable on more than one processor. Both types are listed as concurrency is a useful tool in expressing parallelism, but it is not necessary. In both cases, the features must be part of the language syntax and not an extension such as a library.

Contents

• Actor model
• Coordination languages
• Dataflow programming
• Distributed computing
• Event driven and hardware description
• Functional programming
• Logic programming
• Monitor based
• Multi threaded
• Object oriented programming
• Partitioned Global Address Space PGAS
• Message passing
• CSP based
• APIsFrameworks
• References

The following categories aim to capture the main, defining feature of the languages contained, but they are not necessarily orthogonal.