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From: gottlieb@cmcl2.UUCP (Allan Gottlieb)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Yet another language (Occam) [Parallel Lang.]
Message-ID: <783@cmcl2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 22:34:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 22:34:48 1985
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References: <202@tekcbi.UUCP> <457@bonnie.UUCP> <7393@watrose.UUCP> <1436@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gottlieb@cmcl2.UUCP (Allan Gottlieb)
Organization: New York University
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Summary: 

In article <1436@sunybcs.UUCP> lazarus@sunybcs.UUCP (Daniel G. Winkowski) writes:
>              2) All languages seriously proposed for
>parallel processing attempt to eliminate global side-effects by variables. 

Presumably you mean all languages seriously proposed for nonshared
memory parallel processors.  I can't imagine why the Illinois cedar
people or our Ultracomputer group would want to outlaw writing global
variables since we are proposing architectures that feature (expensive
to implement) globally shared memory.
-- 
Allan Gottlieb
GOTTLIEB@NYU
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