[atrn]

I did a lot of work with transputers and occam in the 1980s and wrote an OS for a machine that used them. The exposure to the CSP way of thinking was a blessing. occam-2 on the other hand was a little too primitive.

I remember when Inmos marketing came up with "We wanted to make occam the FORTRAN of parallel processing". My response was "You have." (a reference to occam-2 having only static arrays and no concept of a record/struct)

[Rochus]

> occam-2 having only static arrays and no concept of a record/struct

Which is remarkable since Tony Hoare is actually also the inventor of the records concept. In the corresponding publication in the Algol Bulletin 21 from 1965 there is even a quote by Occam ;-)