RE: Cryptarithm solver - Haskell vs. C++

[R.S. Nikhil]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel M. T. Chakravarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 4:35 AM
> ...
> 
> * While Sisal is arguably nice than Fortran, it doesn't
>   really provide a new killer feature - rewriting all this
>   Fortran code, just for getting nice programs is maybe not
>   enough of an incentive.

But it DID offer an important new feature relative to
the original Fortran programs it was trying to
displace -- completely automatic parallelization
for the Cray vector machines that were the main
workhorses at Livermore and similar labs.

Nikhil