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C.Reinke
C.Reinke@REDACTED
Fri Jun 7 21:15:27 CEST 2002
> |> I am becoming more and more convinced that Erlang should be judged
> |> as a concurrent language than as an FP langauge.
>
> A concurrent language like OCCAM????
>
> :-)
>
> /mike
I used to think little of OCCAM, because it didn't seem to be
designed for the things I expected from a programming language.
But with that background, I kept running into surprises when
talking to folks in our local concurrency group - they looked at
me as if they had no idea what language I might be complaining
about, until they finally realised: "oh, you mean _normal_ occam..".
Here's a relevant excerpt from their group projects page:
http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/research/groups/crg/research_interests.html
Occam has also been made considerably more flexible, enabling it to
be used way beyond its original target application area (embedded
systems). Extensions include user-defined operators, native thread
support, dynamic process loading, persistence and mobile processes -
a key research issue being to achieve all this without compromising
parallel security or efficiency.
Would be nice if new-Occam (or whatever they may call it) and Erlang
folks would know more about each other's work ;-)
Claus
PS. I guess they are talking about
Kent Retargetable occamTM Compiler (KRoC)
http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/projects/ofa/kroc/
Both pages refer to a conference on "Communicating
Process Architectures" you might be interested in -
the reference on the KRoC page seems to be the recent one..
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