Pict (programming language)

Pict
ParadigmConcurrent
DeveloperBenjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner
Typing disciplineStatic
LicenseGNU General Public License
Filename extensions.pi
Websitewww.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/pict/Html/Pict.html
Influenced by
ML
Influenced
Orc, Nomadic Pict[1]

Pict is a statically typed programming language, one of the very few based on the π-calculus. Work on the language began at the University of Edinburgh in 1992, and development has been more or less dormant since 1998. The language is still at an experimental stage.

References

  1. ^ Sewell, Peter; Wojciechowski, Pawel; Unyapot, Asis (2010). "Nomadic Pict: Programming Languages, Communication Infrastructure Overlays, and Semantics for Mobile Computation". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 32 (4). doi:10.1145/1734206.1734209.

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