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From: oskard%kanga@cs.umass.edu (DAVID OSKARD)
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Subject: choosing parallel languages
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I originally posted this through Internet news and apparently many of
you didn't get it, so my apologies to those of you seeing this twice.


	If you had the chance to do it all over again, would you buy
Occam or one of the third party compilers for the Transputer?
To me it seems that the lack of support for data structures in Occam
is in itself reason enough to consider other possibilities.  Is this
really as big a deal as it seems?  How have you gotten around Occam's
limitations?
	We have also heard that there are plans to support calls to
C functions (and other languages?) from within Occam.  Does this
functionality exist yet?

	We are in the process of purchasing a transputer system to use
as a low-level controller for a robot hand using a Sun 4 as a host.

Any opinions out there?


	David Oskard
	University of Massachusetts
	oskard@cs.umass.edu