Its computing model is concurrent, based on active objects which interact via syntax controlled dialogs.
The language is being developed at ETH Zürich Institute for Computer Systems by Professor Jürg Gutknecht.
The Zonnon Language Report was written by Brian Kirk (director at Robinsons Associates), and David Lightfoot (Oxford Brookes University) working with Gutknecht (ETH, Zürich) and Dr. Eugene Zueff (Евгений Зуев) (Moscow State University).
Typically, an object (or module) is composed of several functional components, each of them presenting itself to clients in the form of an abstract definition.
Agent activities typically implement a parser for some predefined syntax that constitutes a kind of contract between the two communication partners.