occam

occam is a programming language which is concurrent and builds on the communicating sequential processes (CSP) process algebra, and shares many of its features. It is named after philosopher William of Ockham after whom Occam's razor is named. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1983
Designed by: Inmos
Developed by: David May
Named after: William of Ockham

Wikidata: Q838062

Influenced: GoSuperPascalXC

Programming paradigms: imperative programmingconcurrent computingprocedural programming

Language types: process-oriented programming languageprocedural programming languageoff-side rule language

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Hello World in occam

PROGRAM Hello
#USE ioconv

SEQ
  write.full.string(screen,"Hello World")

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