1. Method for the control of mechanisms or technical systems a) the mechanisms or technical systems to be controlled are stored in the control by way of their elementary functions ( 8 ) with the states thereof defined according to the instructions and the appropriate signal vectors ( 15 ) of the sensors ( 13 ) and actuators ( 12 ), whereby starting from a defined reference state ( 18 ) at the beginning of the control activation a continuous comparison is made of the actual states transmitted of the technical equipment by the sensors ( 13 ) with the desired states ( 24 ) stored in the control for all elementary functions and hence any deviation in the system to be controlled from the desired state ( 24 ) according to the instructions is detected, b) a new elementary instruction ( 16 ) that changes the state of the mechanisms or the technical system with its start updates the desired state ( 24 ) for the comparison and monitors the time period until the acknowledgment of the new state according to the instruction, based on also stored permissible control time periods ( 17 ), c) whereby sensor signals and comparable information serve exclusively to identify states of elementary functions ( 8 ), state changes exclusively occur through the start of elementary instructions ( 16 ), to which the sensor and actuator signals are assigned as desired state and the application instructions ( 32 ) freely defined on logical-functional language level are defined by the appropriate assignment of elementary instructions ( 16 ).