Pipe-calculus: Difference between revisions

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* The pipe operation can be seen as a restricted, unidirectional parallel composition.
* The pipe operation can be seen as a restricted, unidirectional parallel composition.


However there are notable differences.
There are also notable differences.


* Communication primitives in mainstream process calculi often inseparably unite two conceptual steps: the selection of a communication target (e.g. a channel or another process) and the act of message sending. For example [[wikipedia:pi-calculus|Π-calculus]] <ref> Joachim Parrow: [https://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs5204/fall05-kafura/Papers/PICalculus/parrow~2.pdf An Introduction to the Π-Calculus], chapter to appear in Handbook of Process Algebra, ed. Bergstra, Ponse and Smolka,
* Communication primitives in mainstream process calculi often inseparably unite two conceptual steps: the selection of a communication target (e.g. a channel or another process) and the act of message sending. For example [[wikipedia:pi-calculus|Π-calculus]] <ref> Joachim Parrow: [https://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs5204/fall05-kafura/Papers/PICalculus/parrow~2.pdf An Introduction to the Π-Calculus], chapter to appear in Handbook of Process Algebra, ed. Bergstra, Ponse and Smolka,
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