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New Languages Vs. Old For Parallel Programming
joabj writes "Getting the most from multicore processors is becoming an increasingly difficult task for programmers. DARPA has commissioned a number of new programming languages, notably X10 and Chapel, written especially for developing programs that can be run across multiple processors, though others see them as too much of a departure to ever gain widespread usage among coders."
The individual cores aren't going to get that much faster in the years to come
I'm sure I've heard something like this before...
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One. Newline characters are for wimps.
The example in the article is atrocious.
Why would you want the withdrawal and balance check to run concurrently?
Because it would make it much easier to profit from self-introduced race conditions and other obscure bugs when I get to the ATM tomorrow :)
You know what, I don't think I'm going to use modern English, either.
Don't you know that early modern English was invented to have something standard into which the bible could be translated? For shame!
As a devoted secularist, I'll just burn all my shakespeare and rushdie after I delete all my perl code.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.