concurrent programming language

A programming language designed to support simultaneous operations. For example, Java and the Java-like Scala language natively support threads and synchronization, whereas languages such as C and C++ rely on external libraries for programming concurrency. See Java, Scala, multithreading, CUDA and multitasking.

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