Agent Languages and Their Relationship to Other Programming Paradigms (Statements of the panel)
Résumé
One of the two panels held this year at ATAL was to address the topic of agent-oriented languages, and particularly their relationship with other (i.e. traditional) programming paradigms. What triggered this panel is the observation that while there have been several proposals for agent-oriented languages the professional programmer has not really picked these up, and continues to employ familiar and more traditional paradigms and languages such as Java, C++, relational and object-oriented databases, and CORBA. So it seemed a good idea to reflect a bit on the position of agent-oriented programming as opposed to well-established paradigms such as object-oriented programming, distributed programming and logic programming.