Occam and Occam pi Programming Language

Occam can express a wide range of behaviours, but some aspects are lacking

• largely as a result of occam’s original application for the Transputer
• dynamic process creation
• channel mobility
• shared channels
Primary aims of occam-p:
• to provide the above features at a language level
• not break the existing good safety guarantees of occam
• make the language “programmer friendly”, i.e. something that people will actually want to use