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Re:Sisal: a functional parallel programming language by pjmlp on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:32AM (#11984851)
Back in the 90's when I was at the university I got hold of a book describing a Lisp based language for parallel computation.

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.

Re:Sisal: a functional parallel programming language by Athas on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:38AM (#11984869)
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 (#11985009)
Re:Sisal: a functional parallel programming language by agumonkey on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:50PM (#11987454)
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 (#11985076)
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 (#11989986)
That sounds to me like Gary Sabot's ‘Paralation Model’.

https://www.amazon.com/Paralation-Model-Architecture-Indepen...