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Occam builds on [[Communication Sequential Processes]] and shares much of the same features. It is, in a way, a practical implementation of CSP. Occam is a [[procedural programming|procedural]] language, similar to [[Pascal programming language|Pascal]] etc.

One peculiarityfeature (also found in [[Python programming language|Python]]) necessary to understand the examples below is that indentation and formatting is critical: expressions are terminated by the end of the line, list of expressions need to be on the same level of indentation.

The most interesting language constructs are described in the following.