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Pict (programming language)

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.

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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
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ML
Influenced
Orc, Nomadic Pict1

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.

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  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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