Abstract
Over the last one-and-a-half years C.A.R. Hoare has explored “communicating sequential processes”, among many other targets, as a means for describing “elephants built from mosquitoes, all humming in harmony”, to quote the old metaphor. His approach has two main characteristics to be described now.
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Dijkstra, E.W. (1982). A Correctness Proof for Communicating Processes: A Small Exercise. In: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5695-3_47
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