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From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Concurrent Lisps
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Date: 25 Feb 88 03:30:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: fowler@pyr.gatech.EDU (FREDERICK C. FOWLER)


In article <5077@pyr.gatech.EDU>, fowler@pyr (FREDERICK C. FOWLER) writes:
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>  I am looking for information about some of the extensions to LISP that have
>been devised for parallel processing.  I've already gotten quite a number of
>responses when I posted a question about MultiScheme in the scheme newsgroup;
>now I'd like to know what references I can use to learn about QLAMBDA, CLISP,
>PARLISP, Concurrent Common LISP, and any other concurrent extension to LISP.

"Qlambda" has been officially renamed to Qlisp and work is in progress
here in implementing it on an Alliant FX/8 and testing applications in
the area of symbolic computation (a la Macsyma).  The best available
description of the language is a chapter by Dick Gabriel and John
McCarthy in "Parallel Computation and Computers for Artificial
Intelligence", edited by Janusz S. Kowalik (Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1988).  This book also discusses several other parallel AI
languages and architectures.  Unfortunately it is rather expensive
($58.95 at the Stanford bookstore).
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