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From: agn@research7.computer-science.manchester.ac.uk (Alvaro Garcia Neto)
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Subject: C to occam translator
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Date: 29 Sep 90 15:57:18 GMT
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> Occam is a real a______e for any reasonable sized program.
> It is a really bad D unless your application is really well suited to the 
> Occam programming model and its not huge. Programmer productivity with Occam
> is about 10% of that with C. Do yourself a favour - leave Occam alone!

  You are entitled to a personal opinion, of course, but that is all it is.
Here at the Univ. Manchester, I've coded in occam a event-driven instruction
level-dataflow simulator.  Occam is not targeted at simulation, and the
110,000 lines of code make it too sizeable for my liking.

  Occam proved suffient for the project needs. In fact, if I had to start
again, I'd probably still do it in occam. 

  This is also only a personal opinion, of course...

'Alvaro
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