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Our attempt to provide a design framework for concurrent systems by extending familiar sequential programming languages was something of a failure. In their favour, extensions are understandable, and no more than common sense is required to use them; they simplify the design of modest concurrent systems to such a degree that even the inexperienced can get things right most of the time without the involvement of nasty things like discrete mathematics.
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Gray, D. (1999). Message Passing. In: Introduction to the Formal Design of Real-Time Systems. Applied Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0889-4_3
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