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From: jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: choosing parallel languages
Message-ID: <5752@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 89 01:30:47 GMT
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In article <276@oscsuna.osc.edu> stein@pixelpump.UUCP (Rick 'Transputer' Stein) writes:
> In article <5739@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman) writes:

> Well, I don't know if the Unidot C compiler available with the Trollius
> OS is completely X3J11, but its a fair one.  I insert Trollius calls
> into my software when message passing is needed or kernel services
> are required.  All Trollius dependencies can be ifdef'd away if 
> portability to sequential execution is a requirement.

Okay, well, I think you program at a coarser grain of
parallelism than I do.  I'm mostly concerned with natural
language processing, information retrieval, multimedia
databases, and implementing local and wide-area networks for
those problems.  I also work on production system based
expert systems.

Serially, I learned BASIC, Z-80, C and Lisp, in that order,
but Occam is clearly superior for multiprocessing
applications.  Other parallel languages I've used are *Lisp
and PARIS/C (on the Connection Machine.)

Perhaps in a language debate like this we should talk about
the applications involed.

:James
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:James P. Salsman (jps@CAT.CMU.EDU)