So it is somehow
remarkable you have a data type of names with no structure whatsoever. These
are atomic things, but they are transferable. They do not have any internal
structure, and this is enough to model lots and lots of things. In fact one can encode datatypes, one can encode higher order processes and functions. Here the idea is not to transmit, you see higher order processes, you were to transmit a process; and in this formula you do not transmit a process you just transmit the access to a process and this is the basic paradigm of object oriented programming also. And then you can have, in the area of p-calculi, many extensions to accommodate distributions, security, mobility, and other concepts arising in global computing. | ![]() |