knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen) (03/01/86)
I'd like to hear from anyone who has any experience with, or any opinions on, the British Occam language for concurrent/parallel programming. Is this language restricted to the INMOS Transputer chipset, or did it exist independendtly of that? I'd rather not get stuck with a sole-source system. Could I have a brief list of its parallelism primitives? What does "ordinary" (eg, C or Fortran) programming look like in it? How complete are its control structures? Most important, is anyone out there using it, or even considering or having considered using it? It sounds good, but I don't want to be the first, last, and only kid on the block and watch it die out. I've seen some postings mentioning Occam but that's been it so far. Thanks, mike k