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- From: conor@lion.inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill)
- Subject: Re: occam
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.115312.3045@inmos.co.uk>
- Sender: news@inmos.co.uk (The Usenet News System)
- Reply-To: conor@inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill)
- Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
- References: <2490@news.cerf.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:53:12 GMT
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- This is the official INMOS position on occam development.
-
- PLEASE do not e-mail me about this; I am too busy.
-
- INMOS OCCAM POSITION
- ====================
-
- 13th May 1992.
-
- INMOS are fully committed to supporting the occam programming language,
- and believe that for important classes of application occam 2 is the best
- language for its customers to use.
-
- The advanced development tools including an X-windows based debugger,
- a profiler and a message routing configurer will all support occam 2
- programming.
-
- An occam 2 toolset for the T9000 will be available when the T9000 is available.
- This will be exactly source compatible with the occam 2 system in the current
- occam 2 toolset. At the configuration level only the hardware description
- will need changing to describe the T9000 hardware, the rest of the
- configuration description will be exactly the same.
-
- INMOS expects to release an optimising occam 2 compiler with full dataflow
- optimisations in 1993. In this release the occam 2 language will be
- extended to support the following new features :-
-
- - User defined types
- - Records
- - Remove requirement for explicitly typing literals
- - Allow arithmetic on BYTE types
- - Allow FUNCTIONs to return fixed length arrays
- - Permit the dropping of FROM and FOR in segments of arrays
-
- This represents the first phase of the occam 3 development based on
- Geoff Barrett's draft language specification.
-
- INMOS is also planning a longer term compiler development programme based on
- ANDF technology. A second phase of development addressing modularity
- and sharing will be undertaken in the context of this development and will
- lead to the availability of native occam 3 compilers for a wide range of
- different computer architectures.
-
- Signed: Ian Pearson, David May, Tony Debling.
-
-
- ---
- Conor O'Neill, Software Group, INMOS Ltd., UK.
- UK: conor@inmos.co.uk US: conor@inmos.com
- "It's state-of-the-art" "But it doesn't work!" "That is the state-of-the-art".
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