david.curran: > Where are compute languages going? > I think multi core, distributed, fault tolerant. > So you would end up with a computer of the sort envisioned by Hillis > in the 80s with his data parallel programs. The only language that > seems even close to this model is Erlang. What am I missing about the > ability of Haskell to distribute across processors or a network?
Data parallel Haskell is a very active area at the moment, http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/project/dph/ Just last week Roman Leshchinskiy was able to get parallel arrays running SMP GHC on a shared memory 40 cpu Sun sparc server :) Also, GPH and its ilk have a long history: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Research_papers/Parallelism_and_concurrency -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe