OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING LABORATORY

Programming Research Group Technical Monograph PRG-53

The Laws of Occam Programming

A W Roscoe and C A R Hoare

February 1986, 86 pages, ISBN 0-902928-34-1

One of the attractive features of occam is the large number of memorable algebraic laws which exist relating programs. We investigate these laws and, by discovering a normal form for WHILE-free programs, show that they completely characterise the language's semantics.


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