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Occam (programming language)

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occam Paradigm: concurrent

Appeared in: 1983

Developer: INMOS

Dialects: Occam-Pi

Influenced by: Communicating Sequential Processes

occam is a concurrent programming language that builds on the Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) formalism,[1] and shares many of its features. It is named after William of Ockham of Occam's Razor fame. occam is, in a way, a practical executable implementation of CSP.

occam is an imperative procedural language (such as Pascal). It was developed by INMOS as the native programming language for their line of transputer microprocessors, but implementations for other platforms exist as well.

Contents

1 Overview

2 Language revisions

2.1 occam 1

2.2 occam 2

2.3 occam 2.1

2.4 occam 3

2.5 occam-pi

3 See also

4 References

5 External links

Overview

In the following examples indentation and formatting are critical for parsing the code: expressions are terminated by the end of the line, lists of expressions need to be on the same level of indentation (this feature, also known as the off-side rule, is also found in other languages).

Communication between processes work through named channels. One process outputs data to a channel via ! while another one inputs data with ?. Input and output will block until the other end is ready to accept or offer data. Examples (c is a variable):

keyboard ? c

screen ! c

SEQ introduces a list of expressions that are evaluated sequentially. This is not implicit as it is in most other programming languages. Example:

SEQ

x := x + 1

y := x * x

PAR begins a list of expressions that may be evaluated concurrently. Example:

PAR

p()

q()

ALT specifies a list of guarded commands. The guards are combination of a boolean condition and an input expression (both optional). Each guard for which the condition is true and the input channel is ready is successful. One of the successful alternatives is selected for execution. Example:

ALT

count1 < 100 & c1 ? data

SEQ

count1 := count1 + 1

merged ! data

count2 < 100 & c2 ? data

SEQ

count2 := count2 + 1

merged ! data

status ? request

SEQ

out ! count1

out ! count2

This will read data from channels c1 or c2 (whichever is ready) and pass it into a merged channel. If countN reaches 100, reads from the corresponding channel will be disabled. A request on the status channel is answered by outputting the counts to out.

Language revisions

occam 1

occam 1 (released 1983) was a preliminary version of the language. This supported only the VAR data type, which was an integral type corresponding to the native word length of the target architecture, and arrays of only one dimension.

occam 2

occam 2 is an extension produced by INMOS Ltd in 1987 that adds floating-point support, functions, multi-dimensional arrays and more data types such as varying sizes of integers (INT16, INT32) and bytes.

With this revision, occam became a language capable of expressing useful programs, whereas occam 1 was more suited to examining algorithms and exploring the new language.

["occam 2 Reference Manual", INMOS, P-H 1988, ISBN 0-13-629312-3].

occam 2.1

occam 2.1 is a second enhancement to occam, produced in 1988 by INMOS Ltd. It was the last of the series of language developments contributed by INMOS. Despite its "incremental" version number, it was a significant upgrade in the usefulness of the language, introducing:

Named data types (DATA TYPE x IS y)

Named Records

Packed Records

Relaxation of some of the type conversion rules

New operators (e.g. BYTESIN)

Channel retyping and channel arrays

Ability to return fixed-length array from function.

For a full list of the changes see Appendix P of the INMOS occam 2.1 Reference Manual.

occam 3

occam 3 was the name for a proposal for the next-generation occam language, created by one of the senior programmers at INMOS. A specification was created and distributed for community comment. The new language included a large number of changes, many of which were focussed at making code sharing, simultaneous development, and project reuse easier.

The occam 3 specification is available, but no compiler was created for this variant of the language, partly due to problems within INMOS and its subsequent takeover.

Some elements from occam 3 were introduced into the occam 2.1 compiler by other teams, and came to be known as 'occam 2.5' - as in "half-way there"!

occam-pi

occam-pi is the common name for the occam variant compiled by KRoC, the Kent Retargetable occam Compiler. The addition of the word "pi" to the occam name is an allusion to the fact that KRoC occam includes several ideas inspired by the pi-calculus. It contains a significant number of extensions to the occam 2.1 compiler, for example:

nested protocols

run-time process creation

mobile channels, data, and processes

recursion

protocol inheritance

array constructors

extended rendezvous

See also

Concurrent programming languages

References

^ INMOS (1995-05-12). occam 2.1 Reference Manual. SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics Ltd.., INMOS document 72 occ 45 03

External links

The occam Archive

WoTUG: occam (Information and Implementations)

The Transterpreter, an occam virtual machine

KRoC - Kent Retargetable occam Compiler

occam tutorial

Internet Parallel Computing Archive: occam (Documentation and implementations but no longer maintained)

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