I've been spending quite a bit of time recently with Implicit Parallel Programming in pH, which luckily the school library had a copy of. It's quite a good textbook to introduce programmers to functional programming, perhaps even one of the better ones (next to the original Intr…
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(or "Minnow, a post-mortem")
I've been fortunate to work on both Minnow(a shared-nothing actor-based language) and Chapel(concurrent global-view language). I wanted to give a few thoughts comparing the two approaches.
First, when we talk about concurrency or parallelism, without …
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I spent some of last night and this morning digging into Racket, the modern version of the venerable Scheme language. Every time I return to a Lisp variant, I find the parentheses less annoying that I did the last time. With proper indenting and some syntax highlighting, is there…
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