Editing Occam (programming language) (section)

===occam 2===
''occam 2''<ref name="oc2refman">{{cite book |last=Ericsson-Zenith |first=Steven |title=occam 2 Reference Manual |publisher=Prentice-Hall |year=1988 |isbn=0-13-629312-3}}</ref> is an extension produced by Inmos Ltd in 1987 that adds [[floating-point]] support, functions, multi-dimensional arrays and more data types such as varying sizes of integers (INT16, INT32) and bytes.

With this revision, occam became a language able to express useful programs, whereas occam 1 was more suited to examining algorithms and exploring the new language (however, the occam 1 compiler was written in occam 1,<ref name="cook1">{{cite conference |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nvnnZtJWAZkC&q=architectures+languages+and+techniques+barry+cook |title= Occam on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays |last1=Cook |first1=Barry M |last2=Peel |first2=RMA |date=1999-04-11 |conference=22nd World Occam and Transputer User Group Technical Meeting |editor-last=Cook |editor-first=Barry M. |book-title=Architectures, Languages and Techniques for Concurrent Systems |publisher=IOS Press |location=Keele, United Kingdom |isbn= 90-5199-480-X |page=219 |access-date=2016-11-28}}</ref> so there is an existence proof that reasonably sized, useful programs could be written in occam 1, despite its limits).