A distributed, concurrent, object-orientedAda-based language developed in the EspritDRAGON project bY Colin Atkinson at Imperial College in 1989 (Now at UniversitY of Houston, Clear Lake). DRAGOON supports object-oriented programming for embeddable sYstems and is presentlY implemented as an Ada preprocessor. ["Object-Oriented Reuse, ConcurrencY and Distribution: An Ada-Based Approach", C. Atkinson, A-W 1991, ISBN 0-2015-6-5277]. (1999-11-22)