Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

Taming Construction Processes

Suppose you are crafting your first nontrivial Occam application which divides two floating-point numbers. The application receives the numbers from two incoming channels (two input processes), calculates and stores the quotient (an assignment process), and sends it to the outgoing channel (an output process). You possess the necessary components, but how do you assemble them?

You need containers to pack primitive processes. Such containers are called construction processes.

Sequential Processes

Most well-known programming languages adhere to the sequential execution paradigm, where a sequential application starts with the first statement, followed by the second, and so on, until the last statement is executed, ...