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Re:Programming in the Apocalypse by rectang on Monday May 30, 2022 @02:47PM (#31562243)
"Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?" — John Backus, 1978

44 years later, it hasn't happened. I'm skeptical that it will happen in the next 28.

Re:Programming in the Apocalypse by waynecochran on Monday May 30, 2022 @04:59PM (#31563571)
Probably not a complete break. But there needs to be paradigms that can allow for exacale computing. Instead of 20000 independent threads (e.g., SIMD / CUDA style) we will have trillions of threads that work in interleaved harmony. The von Neumann model break downs at that level.
Re:Programming in the Apocalypse by edgedetector on Monday May 30, 2022 @04:01PM (#31563080)
We've made a ton of progress. They didn't have decentralized computing at all in 1978. Now most things run on remote machines. Also, there has been a move away from the imperative style that makes parallelism so difficult.