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From: roger@wraxall.inmos.co.uk (Roger Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c
Subject: occam (was Re: The Fundamental Concept of Programming language X)
Keywords: programming languages, abstractions
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Date: 4 Jan 90 10:06:32 GMT
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In article <1470@inmos.co.uk (Bill Smith) writes:
>
>The idea is "fundamental concept."  The fundamental concept of
>a language is the data structure, control structure or style issue
>that distinguishes the language and must be understood in detail before 
>proficient use of the programming language can begin.
>

I would like to add 

	Language	Concept

	occam		concurrency and communciation
	occam 2         occam + (concrete) data types




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