Re: Computers are systems not languages

2011-02-18 Thread alex
Hi Richard, This adds a lot of clarity, thanks. On 18 February 2011 00:27, Richard O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nz wrote: On 18/02/2011, at 3:55 AM, alex wrote: Ian Bogost starts off by arguing that learning a programming language shouldn't meet a curricular requirement for learning a natural

Re: Models of Parallelism

2011-02-18 Thread John Zabroski
Folks, There have been tasks looking at using different techniques for concurrent and parallel programming. I posted one example to the Lambda the Ultimate front page a few months ago. Please see Is Transactional Programming Actually Easier?: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4070 Something

Re: Models of Parallelism

2011-02-18 Thread John Zabroski
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Russel Winder rus...@russel.org.ukwrote: Prompted by various discussions elsewhere, I am on the search for recent experimental results and/or people doing or about to do experiments. The questions all relate to the models of parallel software: shared-memory

Re: Models of Parallelism

2011-02-18 Thread John Zabroski
Sorry to the group if that last e-mail came off as rant'ish. I think some focus on studies would be nice, but why does it feel like (to me) that we are aimlessly picking this versus that studies? I would start instead by using expert knowledge, and work from there. For example, parallelism