Principles

Our idealistic goal in the Zonnon project was the design of an interoperable, imperative object-oriented language that is simpler, more economical, more powerful and better scalable than comparable programming languages. More specifically, our goal was a language that:

Preserves the spirit of Oberon.
Disentangles different concerns like code reuse, polymorphism, sub-classing etc.
Emphasizes the view of software development as implementation of predefined abstractions.
Unifies the logical structure of programs and distributed systems.
Is able to interoperate with other participating languages both as a consumer and as a producer.
Maps naturally to the .net framework.

Contributors

The author of the language, and a scientific adviser of the project

Jürg Gutknecht

The following people have made their contributions to the project

Brian Kirk
David Lightfoot
Eugene Zueff
Nina Gonova
Roman Mitin
Urs Müller
Vladimir Romanov

Special thanks for the valuable input through commetns, discussions, using the language and the compiler to

Alan Freed
Nihal Dindar

Publications

Implementing Mathematical Data Types on Top of .NET
Jurg Gutknecht, Roman Mitin, Nina Gonova and Nikolai Zolotykh. In Proc. SBLP, Salvador, Brazil, 2010.

Project Zonnon: A Compositional Language for Distributed Computing
Jürg Gutknecht, Roman Mitin. 7th IEEE International Conference on Composition-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS). February, 25-29, 2008 - Madrid, Spain.

Structured Concurrency at Work in an Object-Oriented Language
J. Gutknecht, B. Kirk, R. Mitin. 14. Kolloquium Programmiersprachen und Grundlagen der Programmierung (KPS'07). Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, 10.-12. October 2007.

Project Zonnon: A .NET Language Platform Challenge
Jurg Gutknecht, Roman Mitin, Eugene Zueff. In Proceedings of the Conference on Innovative Views of .NET Technologies (IVNET'06), Florianopolis, Brazil October 2006

The Concepts of Zonnon A language for systems engineering with Modules, Objects and Concurrency
Brian Kirk, David Lightfoot and Prof. Jurg Gutknecht.

Zonnon for .NET, A Language and Compiler Experiment
Jurg Gutknecht, Eugene A. Zueff, Computer Systems Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
JMLC Conference, August 2003.

Zonnon: A .NET Language Beyond C#
Jurg Gutknecht, Institute for Computer Systems, ETH Zurich.
Microsoft Conference, June 15-17, 2003, Moscow.

Zonnon Language Experiment, or How to Implement a Non-Conventional Object Model for .NET
Jurg Gutknecht, Eugene A. Zueff, Computer Systems Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Extended Abstract, OOPSLA'2002 Conference, November 2002, Seattle.

Brief overview of the highlights of the Zonnon language (new object model).
Discussion about the mapping to .NET.
Short intro to CCI (Common Compiler Infrastructure) which is used for the Zonnon compiler.

Zonnon Compiler: Architecture, Integration, Technology (Power Point slides in Russian)
Eugene A. Zueff, Institute for Computer Systems, ETH Zurich.
Microsoft Conference, June 15-17, 2003, Moscow.

Support

Send all your questions and suggestions to Roman Mitin.

Student projects

List of topics.

If you are a student at ETH Zurich and you are interested in one of the topics - contact Roman Mitin.

Contacts

Prof. Dr. Jurg Gutknecht
Computer Systems Institute
Department of Computer Science
Clausiusstr. 59, RZ H24
ETH Zentrum
8092 Zurich
Switzerland

Voice +41 44 632 7322
Fax +41 44 632 1307
Email gutknecht _ at _ inf.ethz.ch