Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming language design?

eijkhout@tacc.utexas.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:42:16 -0600

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From: eijkhout@tacc.utexas.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:42:16 -0600
Organization: Texas Advanced Computing Center
References: 12-03-012 12-03-013
Keywords: history, design, parallel, question
Posted-Date: 20 Mar 2012 18:13:46 EDT

Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> wrote:


> The biggest thing that I think needs innovation is parallel programming:
> we're still waiting for the innovation like OOP that makes large
> commercial parallel programs (leaving aside HPC as wanting something
> different) much easier to program.


Can you characterize non-HPC parallelism? Why is it different? What are
the problems to be addressed?


Victor.
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Victor Eijkhout -- eijkhout at tacc utexas edu


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