This book was published in the Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science in 1988, and is no longer in print in its physical form. The web edition is mechanically produced from the sources of the paper edition, and retains its page structure. Each chapter is provided as a PostScript file, and the texts of the programs in the appendix are also given in plain text.

• Contents
• Preface
• An introduction to occam
• Programming structures
• Local time
• Formatted input and output
• In place of interrupts
• Parallel matrix multiplication
• Parallel sorting
• Conway's game of Life
• Huffman minimum redundancy coding
• The occam notation
• Codes of the programs
  • Input and output routines (text)
  • Terminal interrupt management (text)
  • Parallel matrix multiplier (text)
  • Parallel sorter (text)
  • Conway's game of Life (text)
  • Simple Huffman coder (text)
  • Adaptive Huffman coder (text)
• Index

A somewhat changed Russian language edition of this book was also published under the title Programmirovanie na yazyke Okkam, by Mir publishers, Moskva, ISBN 5-03-001155-2, 1989.