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Our course was still using the occam-π revision, listed in the article, to teach concurrent programming ~10 years ago. In a world of docs on tap and Q&A forums
by shrew 7y ago
Our course was still using the occam-π revision, listed in the article, to teach concurrent programming ~10 years ago.
In a world of docs on tap and Q&A forums aplenty, learning an esoteric branch of a small, ageing language provided a crash course in concurrent programming and a DIY mentality to problem solving that our Java assignments maybe didn't insist on.
It doesn't look like much has changed but it was nice to re-read all the same!
- atrn 7y agoI did a lot of occam in the 1980s working with transputer-based machines (I wrote a sort of OS for the system our company was building to target TV/film animation). At the time Inmos marketing came up with the line "We want to make occam the FORTRAN of parallel processing." My response, referring to occam's lack of data structuring, was, "You have."