Sunday, August 2, 2009

Occam Pi - alive and well: links to current work

I know what you're thinking: what are Occam, Occam Pi, or the Transputer (RIP)? Wikipedia my friends, and perhaps a discussion for another day. In the meantime, thanks to a post from P.H. Welch on the Java-threads and occam-com mail lists, here on one handy place is a collection of links to several related web sites, in response to the question of whether occam was "dead" or not:

To see some life, you could look at the CoSMoS demo pages:

http://www.cosmos-research.org/demos
all of which are programmed in occam-pi. This is a *funded* project
(almost 1.5M GBP), starting nearly two years ago and continuing
through March, 2012. occam-pi is flying, :).

We're also maintaining:

http://pop-users.org/wiki/occam-pi (general start page)
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/ofa/kroc/
http://transterpreter.org/
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/ofa/sei-cmu/ (the course)
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/groups/sys/wiki/OccamPiReference
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/groups/sys/wiki/OccamPiStyleGuide
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/groups/sys/wiki/OccamDoc
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/groups/sys/wiki/OEP
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/groups/sys/wiki/KrocInternals
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/groups/sys/wiki/OccBuild
http://occam-pi.org/occamdoc/frames.html
http://frmb.org/occ21-extensions.html
http://projects.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/kroc/trac/wiki/Installation

(open sources - svn repository)
https://projects.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/kroc/trac/
https://projects.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/transterpreter/trac/
https://projects.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/tock/trac/
https://projects.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/nocc/trac/

And there will be quite a few developments reported at CPA 2009:
http://www.wotug.org/cpa2009/

What - you want some of the wikipedia links to save you a minute of typing/searching? OK:
Occam Language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language)
Inmos Transputer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer

Many of the early Occam and Transputer concepts have been reborn in current technology. Please post comments with links to any of which you are aware.

best regards
Bruce

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