Re: Paul Graham's PyCon Keynote

[Steve Dekorte <address@hidden>]

On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 06:19 PM, Luke Gorrie wrote:
> Have you looked at Connection Machine Lisp? I took the liberty of
> putting the paper on the internet,
> http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/misc/papers/ConnectionMachineLisp.pdf

Although the array/vector processing model described maps well to the  
architecture of the Connection Machine, it also makes implementing  
typical programs in ways that exploit parallelism difficult. Concurrent  
objects, such as Lieberman and Hewitt's actors might be a better  
solution:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/OOP/Act-1/Concurrent-OOP-in- 
Act-1.html

Cheers,
Steve
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