>"Central to the π-calculus is the notion of name. The simplicity of the calculus lies in the dual role that names play as communication channels and variables.

>"Central to the π-calculus is the notion of name. The simplicity of the calculus lies in the dual role that names play as communication channels and variables." That is very interesting! A future related (concurrent!) programming language might allow every variable -- to also be a communication channel, and conversely, every communication channel to also be a variable! Related: The concept from Unix of: "Everything is a file": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file