Programming Help for Occam Language

Introduction to Occam Programming Language

Occam Programming Language is a Imperative Procedural Language or Concurrent Programming Language.It is build on CSP(Communicating Sequential Processes) which process algebra and shares its features. Occam-pi is mostly used version of occam. It supports variety of platform with collection of open source tools.

Syntax of a Process in Occam

<declaration> 
<declaration>
...
<declaration>
<executable>

Keywords used in Occam Programming Language

In Occam Programming process communicate through channels.One process outputs data to a channel via”!” while another one input data with”?”

Example

keyboard ? c
 screen ! c

SEQ

The Sequential expression are introduced by SEQ

SEQ
Z :=Z + 1
U := Z * Z

PAR

The list of expression that can be evaluated concurrently begins with PAR

PAR
p()
q()

How to learn Occam Programming Language

Tutorial for Occam Programming Language:

• Programming in Oz


• Introduction to the Programming Language Occam

Videos to learn Occam Programming Language:

• occam-pi Programming


• occam-pi and Plumbing: Heartbeat

Download Occam compiler Here!!