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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into a bar. The bartender says, “ Sorry, but we don't serve minors .”

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Bell Labs and CSP Threads

This page is a slice of the history of concurrent programming, focusing on one particular lineage of Hoare's language of communicating sequential processes (CSP) [1] [1a] . Concurrent programming in this style is interesting for reasons not of efficiency but of clarity. That is, it is a widespread mistake to think…