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Whenever CSP comes around on Hacker News, I feel the need to suggest people look a bit into Milner's CCS as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_com
by lou1306 8y ago
Whenever CSP comes around on Hacker News, I feel the need to suggest people look a bit into Milner's CCS as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_communicating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_communicating_syst...
The end goals of both languages are mostly the same, but while CSP aims at being a "powerful" language, CCS strives for simplicity. You can see how both approaches have their pros and cons.
- iainmerrick 8y agoYes! CCS feels like “the” concurrent equivalent of the lambda calculus (although really there’s a huge family of similar simple process calculi that are all essentially the same). CSP feels very large and untidy in comparison.