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New Languages Vs. Old For Parallel Programming

Posted by timothy on from the nothing-new-will-ever-happen dept.

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."

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  1. Re:What's so hard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many lines does it take you to parallelize this with pthreads in C?

    One. Newline characters are for wimps.

  2. Re:Chapel? by sam_handelman · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.