Re:Sisal: a functional parallel programming language
by Athas on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:38AM
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It might have been *Lisp (StarLisp) for the Connection Machine. Incidentally, the Connection Machine also seems to have been one of the main platforms for NESL (which might explain why NESL went nowhere...).
Re:Sisal: a functional parallel programming language
by kgwgk on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:23AM
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Maybe this book https://books.google.ch/books/about/The_Connection_Machine.h... ?
If i remember correctly it's Hillis' PhD thesis: http://worrydream.com/refs/Hillis%20-%20The%20Connection%20M...
Re:Sisal: a functional parallel programming language
by agumonkey on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:50PM
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A few videos on youtube, I enjoyed this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjmostrFetg
Re:Sisal: a functional parallel programming language
by pjmlp on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:47AM
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My memory is a bit fuzzy in that regard, but it looks like that one.
Thanks for pointing it out.
Re:Sisal: a functional parallel programming language
by dang on Monday June 27, 2016 @06:21PM
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That sounds to me like Gary Sabot's ‘Paralation Model’.
https://www.amazon.com/Paralation-Model-Architecture-Indepen...
It was a very interesting book about a computer architecture that thanks to the FP abstractions would, in theory, allow the users to get automatically scaling for free.
Something like Clojure parallel abstractions, but that was a Lisp Machine like environment, not a plain language runtime.
However I cannot recall anything else about the book, other that the book cover might have been a green one.