Pict (programming language)

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| name = Pict

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| paradigm = Concurrent

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| developer = Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner

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| typing = Static

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| license = GNU General Public License

| file ext = .pi

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| website = {{URL|https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/pict/Html/Pict.html}}

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| influenced by = ML

| influenced = Orc, Nomadic Pict

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Pict is a statically typed programming language, one of the very few based on the π-calculus. Work on the language began at the University of Edinburgh in 1992, and development has been more or less dormant since 1998. The language is still at an experimental stage.