Protocol Programming: A Connection of the Digital World

TL;DR

This paper introduces protocol programming, a new paradigm that connects objects through protocols to enable communication, concurrency, and adaptability across platforms, demonstrated with an implementation showing its effectiveness.

Contribution

It proposes a novel programming paradigm that connects objects via protocols, supporting cross-platform communication and autonomous behaviors, which was not addressed in traditional object-oriented programming.

Findings

Supports communication across different platforms

Enables efficient concurrency and parallelism

Demonstrates effectiveness through implementation

Abstract

The current computer programmings encapsulate attributes and behaviours into objects, but miss the mechanism to support the connection among objects. A programming paradigm is presented to connect all objects. The connection supports communications. Protocols are defined to coordinate the behaviours between objects, which enable the interaction of objects across different platforms. The connection also provides an efficient mechanism to support the concurrency, parallelism, distribution, pipeline and adaptability, etc. They can be governed transparently, autonomously, even adaptively. In this paper, an implementation is also discussed to show the effectiveness of protocol programming.