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'''Occam''' is a parallel [[programming language]] developed by [[Inmos]] for their line of [[Transputer]]s. Implementations for other platforms exist as well.
 
Occam builds on [[CommunicationCommunicating Sequential Processes]] (CSP) and shares many 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 feature (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, lists of expressions need to be on the same level of indentation.