[1] : WordNet (r) 2.0

occam
     n : english scholastic philosopher and assumed author of occam's
         razor 1285-1349 syn: william of occam, ockham, william
         of ockham
see also:
william of occam ockham william of ockham 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

occam
     
         note lower case a language based on anthony
        hoare's csp and epl.  named after the english
        philosopher, william of occam 1300-1349 who propounded
        occam's razor.  the occam language was designed by david may
        of inmos to easily describe concurrent processes which
        communicate via one-way channels.  it was developed to run on
        the inmos transputer but compilers are available for
        vax, sun and intel mds, inter alia.
     
        the basic entity in occam is the process of which there are
        four fundamental types, assignment, input, output, and wait.
        more complex processes are constructed from these using seq to
        specify sequential execution, par to specify parallel
        execution and alt where each process is associated with an
        input from a channel.  the process whose channel inputs first
        is executed.  the fourth constructor is if with a list of
        conditions and associated processes.  the process executed is
        the one with the first true condition in textual order.  there
        is no operator precedence.
     
        the original occam is now known as "occam 1".  it was extended
        to produce occam 2.
     
        simulator for vax ftp://watserv1.waterloo.edu/.
     
        tahoe mailing list: .
     
        david may et al, 1982.  "concurrent algorithms".
     
        "occam", d. may, sigplan notices 184:69-79, 1983.
     
        1994-11-18
     
     
see also:
anthony hoare csp epl occam's razor inmos concurrent 
transputer vax sun intel mds 
assignment occam 2 lt;simulator for vaxgt; 

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