CSP is a formalism for concurrency. A concurrent system is described as a number of processes that communicate and synchronize via events. CSP allows to precisely specify and analyze concurrent systems. For example, with CSP one can prove the there are no deadlocks in a system or that a system satisfies some safety properties.
The concepts from CSP have influenced many real world designs, for example the event-based synchronization in languages like Go and Erlang.
Several tools are available for checking CSP specifications. FDR, ProB and this Haskell tools use an input language called CSPM. CSPM (the machine-readable syntax for CSP) is a small programming language that combines the core CSP constructs like processes and events with a small functional programming language. CSPM is a specification language not a general purpose programming language. Tools can automatically check CSPM code for properties like absense of deadlock or safety properties.
The Repository contains several Haskell cabal packages:
CSPM-Frontend (parser for CSPM-syntax)
CSPM-CoreLanguage (definition of processes and events)
CSPM-FiringRules (semantics for Processes and events)
CSPM-Interpreter (functional sub-language)
CSPM-ToProlog (dump CSPM syntax trees as Prolog)
CSPM-cspm (main executable)
The CSPM-cspm package provides the cspm executable. The cspm executable serves as a command line interface to the other CSPM libraries. It can be used to parse, translate and interpret CSPM specifications and to compute the labeled transition system (LTS) of a specification.