Re: IDS Feature Request List (including potential new requests).

"Marco Greco" <marco@4glworks.com> wrote in message news:mailman.88.1136488564.740.informix-list@iiug.org... > > bozon wrote: >> Interesting, but I had never heard of Occam. I suppose you mean this >> Occam: >> >> Occam is a parallel processing language designed by a team at INMOS in >> conjunction with the design of the transputer processor, and based on >> T. Hoare's ideas of CSP. >> >> Occam incorporates support for very fine grained, easy to use threads >> and seamless support of multi-processor environments. It can be used >> with shared or distributed memory systems, and the strong basis in CSP >> makes it excellent choice when formal proofs of correctness are >> required. >> >> Very cool language. As an exercise in compiler design we had to write a >> language that had nesting of comments but I hadn't seen a language in >> the "real" world with this feature. > > Happy days, I was learning occam in my second uni stint in pisa, 1987, or > thereabout. and BTW You weren't at uni in 1987, surely?! Must have been a mature student then :-)