P (programming language)

P

Developer	Ankush Desai, Vivek Gupta: not the politician, Ethan Jackson, Shaz Qadeer, Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft
First appeared	2012 (2012)
OS	Cross-platform
License	MIT License
Filename extensions	.p
Website	p-org.github.io/P/

P is a programming language for asynchronous event-driven programming and the IoT that was developed by Microsoft and University of California, Berkeley.

P enables programmers to specify systems consisting of a collection of state machines that communicate asynchronously in terms of events. P programs can run and be analyzed on any platform supported by .NET. Additionally, P programs can generate C# and C code.

P is open source, licensed under MIT License, and available on GitHub.

See also

• Microsoft Research
• Free software movement

Further reading

• P: Safe asynchronous event-driven programming. Ankush Desai, Vivek Gupta, Ethan Jackson, Shaz Qadeer, Sriram Rajamani, and Damien Zufferey. In Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2013.
• Systematic testing of asynchronous reactive systems. Ankush Desai, Shaz Qadeer, and Sanjit A. Seshia. In Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2015).
• Building Reliable Distributed Systems With P. Ankush Desai, Ethan Jackson, Amar Phanishayee, Shaz Qadeer and Sanjit A. Seshia. University of California, Berkeley. Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2015-198.

External links

• Official website
• Source code on GitHub
• P: Safe Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming
• P: A programming language designed for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty