🚀 go-pugleaf

Occam was designed as a parallel programming language, with concurrency
implemented inter- and intra-processor.

For a transputer way out on a limb somewhere, running out of memory
resource is fatal.

In most C environments, with a disk nearby, this is not a fatal
condition. Indeed, on a virtual memory machine, the application may not
even notice unless it was watching the clock.

If recursion can be guaranteed not to exceed a fixed memory resource,
there seems to be no reason why it could not be added to the language.

Guarantees up until now have not been forthcoming.

A simple system like tail-recursion can be implemented in a loop. To
put restrictions like "only use recursion when tail-recursing" or
"ping-disk < 10msec" would be a sad day for the occam-as-a-language
aficandos.

Hmm .. let me see - you seem to have enough memory THIS time - still
muddies the language waters but may be a compromise.

Cheers,     Andy.
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andyr@wizzy.com  Andy Rabagliati, RR1 Box 33, Wyalusing, PA 18853 (717)746-7780