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Line 15: }} '''P4''' is a [[programming language]] designed to allow programming of packet forwarding dataplanes. In contrast to a general purpose language such as C or python, P4 is a [[___domain-specific language]] with a number of constructs optimized around network data forwarding. P4 is an [[open source\|open-source]], [[Permissive free software licence\|permissively-licenced]] language and is maintained by a non-profit organization called the P4 Language Consortium. The language was originally described in a SIGCOMM CCR paper in 2014 titled “Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors”<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.sigcomm.org/node/3503\|title=P4: Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors\|date=July 2014\|accessdate=7 April 2015}}</ref> – the alliterative name shortens to “P4”. == Language overview and design considerations ==

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