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From: gupta@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (gupta)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: top level definitions
Message-ID: <894@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
Date: 31 May 89 09:22:18 GMT
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Reply-To: gupta@prlhp1.UUCP (Ashok Gupta)
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In article <417@unicads.UUCP> les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash) writes:
>(After reading about Screme on the 88K in ASPLOS III I'm getting tempted to
>write one for INMOS Transputers.  Any huge interest in this out there?
>Can anybody point me at thoughts about Schemes on multiprocessors (i suspect
>Scheme is a great language for multiprocessors but I don't really know the
>details) or just an overview of Scheme (i suspect that it's "Lisp without
>X or Y or Z" which gives you "Lisp with some additional magic powers").
>My goal is to have a nice language for programming a single
>processor, and running bunches of those, but perhaps there are some slick
>things permitting parallel evaluation of subexpressions  by multple 
>processors etc.)
>
>any other tips for a rank beginner?  

Try these :-

"Multilisp : A language for concurrent-symbolic computation"
   Robert Halstead Jr. ACM Trans. on Prog. Langs & Systems 
            Vol 7, no 4, Oct 1985

"QLisp : Experience and Directions" Ron Goldman & Richard P Gabriel,
     Lucid Inc.,
                          and
"Restructuring Lisp Programs for Concurrent execution" 
   James R. Larus & Paul N. Hilfinger
both in Proc. of ACM/SIGPLAN PPEALS (Symposium on Parallel Programing:
Experience with Applications, Languages and Systems, July 1988.

"Parallel Symbolic Computing" Robert Halsteaf Jr
 (plus other articles)  IEEE Computer August 1986
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