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Occam-2 was definitely not my most favorite language, but an interesting experience. Thanks for the link; I only had the original manuals and Pio2 at the time.
by Rochus 4y ago
Occam-2 was definitely not my most favorite language, but an interesting experience. Thanks for the link; I only had the original manuals and Pio2 at the time. Using http://any2djvu.djvu.org/ http://any2djvu.djvu.org/ I was able to generate a fast, compact version of the referenced PDF.
Btw. Pio2 can be accessed from here: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/geraint.jones/publications/book/Pio2/ http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/geraint.jones/publications/boo...
- atrn 4y agoI did a lot of work with transputers and occam in the 1980s and wrote an OS for a machine that used them. The exposure to the CSP way of thinking was a blessing. occam-2 on the other hand was a little too primitive. I remember when Inmos marketing came up with "We wanted to make occam the FORTRAN of parallel processing". My response was "You have." (a reference to occam-2 having only static arrays and no concept of a record/struct)
- Rochus 4y ago> occam-2 having only static arrays and no concept of a record/struct Which is remarkable since Tony Hoare is actually also the inventor of the records concept. In the corresponding publication in the Algol Bulletin 21 from 1965 there is even a quote by Occam ;-)