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Re:Parallel Computing: The End of the Turing Madness on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @12:33AM (#1197788)
In your opinion, of course.
Re:Parallel Computing: The End of the Turing Madness on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @12:30AM (#1197780)
As they say, opinions are a dime a dozen. The author would say that, if the Turing Machine was relevant to parallel programming, we would not have a parallel programming crisis and you would not be reading this and getting all twisted out of shape because your idol is not what he's made out to be.
Re:Parallel Computing: The End of the Turing Madness on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @12:23AM (#1197767)
Wow. He must have struck a raw nerve.
You are worse than obtuse. You are plain dishonest. You are picking stuff up out of context in order to appear to make a valid disparaging point but you are just being an a*hole. And you know it.
You are being disingenuous or purposefully obtuse since the author explains what he means in the same sentence. It's not rocket science.
You're wrong. There are serious people working, as I write, on implementing the author's vision.
Re:Half a Century of Crappy Computing on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @11:13PM (#1163350)
The way I understand it, components can share data.
Re:Half a Century of Crappy Computing on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @10:49PM (#1163317)
Well, Savain would say, "If the Turing Computing Model is as awesome as computer scientists make it out to be, why doesn't it solve the parallel programming crisis?"
Re:Half a Century of Crappy Computing on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @10:39PM (#1163296)
Well, you should read his recent posts on why Frederic Brooks's "No Silver Bullet" was wrong:

http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2010/02/reliable-software-p...