From: Barry Margolin <bar...@bbnplanet.com>
Subject: Re: Lisp io performance.
Date: 1999/01/21
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In article <7khftkie2d....@jpl.nasa.gov>,
Matt Wette  <Matthew.R.Wette.nos...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>The company is Thinking Machines.  The CM was SIMD.  *The*
>language to run on this machine was, of course, Fortran 90.

Actually, the high-level language that mapped most naturally would probably
be APL.  There was a guy at TMC who was into APL and I think had an
implementation, but it was never made part of the product.

Meanwhile, someone at the MIT AI Lab also implemented *Logo, so that
kiddies could have zillions of turtles on their screens. :)

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