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In article <rob.722034771@dutncp8> rob@pact.nl (Rob Kurver) writes:

>
>The CSP paradigm as supported by Occam and PACT Parallel C is a very
>powerful one, and is especially interesting with the support provided
>by the transputer.  
>
>Cheers. - Rob
>

Rob, you seem to have forgotten about INMOS ANSI C providing the same sort of
CSP paradigm as your own, this obviously slipped your mind :-). I guess the 
difference boils down to whether you want an ANSI C validated compiler with 
functional additions for parallelism and communications or an ANSI C compiler 
with non-ANSI language additions for the same. I would argue (from customer 
feedback) that OCCAM tends to be used along with INMOS ANSI C as this 
provides you with a flexible environment for parallel/comms/sequential 
programming with excellent diagnostics at compile and run time.

Just to cloud the issue once more INMOS' soon to be shipping new optimising C 
compiler has a specific optimisation for tail call recursion i.e.

void p (int q)
{
  ...
  return(p(...));
}

in this case the workspace of p is reused as the function recurses, also, 
nested returns are omitted so that only one return is needed no matter how many 
levels of recursion take place.

Steve

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