occam-π

{{Short description|Variant of the programming language occam}}

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{{lowercase title|occam-π}}

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| paradigm = Imperative, procedural, concurrent

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| designers = Fred Barnes, Peter Welch

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In computer science, occam-π (or occam-pi) is the name of a variant of the programming language occam developed by the Kent Retargetable occam Compiler (KRoC) team at the University of Kent.{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/ofa/kroc/|title=occam-pi: blending the best of CSP and the pi-calculus|last1=Barnes|first1=Fred|last2=Welch|first2=Peter|date=2006-01-14|access-date=2006-11-24}} The name reflects the introduction of elements of π-calculus (pi-calculus) into occam, especially concepts involving mobile agents (processes) and data. The language contains several extensions to occam 2.1, including:

• Nested protocols
• Run-time process creation
• Mobile channels, data, and processes
• Recursion
• Protocol inheritance
• Array constructors
• Extended rendezvous