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From: Frank DG1SBG <dg1...@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: distributed & high performance programming trends
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Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:14:46 +0200
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D Herring <dherr...@at.tentpost.dot.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Tonight I was telling some people about programming trends I was seeing in the
> wider community.  The Lisp community has a good foundation for writing the
> necessary tools, but the work is being done in other languages for various
> pragmatic reasons.
>
> Here are a two of those languages, with papers motivating the problem domain
> and outlining their approach to the solution.
>
> Chapel:
> http://chapel.cray.com/
> http://psc.informatik.uni-jena.de/teach/prog-lang/HPCS/chapel-programmability.pdf

This looks interesting. I'd be inclined to make an attempt at
implementing Chapel as a set of Lisp macros, based on bordeaux-threads
and a few new data management utilities. Any co-workers here?

Thanks for sharing, Daniel!

Regards
  Frank