Pictorial Languages: Concepts and Data Structures

Abstract

The paper describes features and properties that should be satisfied in the design of medium level pictorial languages implemented for massive parallel machines. An overview of relevant pictorial languages is done. Main emphasis it is given to hierarchical architectures; pyramid machines are an example of such kind of machines. Pictorial data type and a concurrency model are also described. A C-like syntax, for the design of pictorial languages is introduced.

Indexing terms:

• Multi-processors machines
• Parallel programming
• Image processing
• Languages