Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feed.news.qwest.net!mpls-nntp-05.inet.qwest.net!216.196.98.147.MISMATCH!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: eijkhout@tacc.utexas.edu (Victor Eijkhout) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming language design? Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:42:16 -0600 Organization: Texas Advanced Computing Center Lines: 14 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <12-03-047@comp.compilers> References: <12-03-012@comp.compilers> <12-03-013@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: leila.iecc.com 1332281626 5805 64.57.183.58 (20 Mar 2012 22:13:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:13:46 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: history, design, parallel, question Posted-Date: 20 Mar 2012 18:13:46 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:514 Joshua Cranmer wrote: > The biggest thing that I think needs innovation is parallel programming: > we're still waiting for the innovation like OOP that makes large > commercial parallel programs (leaving aside HPC as wanting something > different) much easier to program. Can you characterize non-HPC parallelism? Why is it different? What are the problems to be addressed? Victor. -- Victor Eijkhout -- eijkhout at tacc utexas edu