A language designed with concurrency, message passing or independently executing processes as a core language feature rather than a library added on top, matching ACM Computing Classification System Language types: Concurrent programming languages. Belongs here: Erlang and Go. Does not belong here: a language where concurrency support is an ordinary library feature rather than a defining design goal.
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1. Wikipedia: Concurrent computing
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The academic study of concurrent algorithms started in the 1960s, with Dijkstra (1965) credited with being the first paper in this field, identifying and solving mutual exclusion.
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