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From: gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Bondage and Discipline Languages
Message-ID: <8609@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 89 03:00:15 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article  <488@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes:
>...
>does icon allow a computation (expression?) to generate several unsynchronized
>result streams?

Yes and no.  It depends on what you mean by ``unsynchronized''.  Icon
does allow result sequences to be liberated from their immediate
context with co-expressions, so the results can be gathered at the
programmer's leisure rather than in a depth-first order.  But Icon
doesn't support parallelism.

However, there is a language based on Icon that uses generators as a
basis for parallelism.  Quite an interesting feature.  The languages
is experimental, it's not distributed or supported.