🚀 go-pugleaf

If there's a wall around I'll bang my head against it. With luck enough others
might bang this one. Yer never know it might fall down.

occam is not dead. It is in widespread use throughout the transputer development
community by those who are willing to try it out and listen to its arguments.

Why is occam so good? The potted version: security, explicit concurrency,
readability and run-time modularity via processes. (It is easy to think and
reason about a system as a network of processes at run-time. These are easily
expressed and read in occam.) Security is not easy to achieve in a concurrent
system. occam makes it a hell of a lot easier. Besides, is it so unreasonable
to use a parallel programming language to do parallel programming. I have seen
code written in C for transputers which has been recoded in occam. I know which
I would rather read and trust!

My message is simply this. TRY IT! It is the easiest language I've ever learned
and by far and away the most rewarding to use.

occam 3 will provide source-code modularity too, which just about picks up all
the requirements of a modern programming language. All we need now is compilers
for a range of targets (especially Macs, Suns as used in teaching establishments
so as to broaden the expertise base). These appear at last to be on their way
now that Inmos have released source for their compiler,

Ian East
ian%buck@uk.ac.ukNet
University of Buckingham