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Actually there was this really novel language CM-lisp <https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.108.5413&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://citeseerx.is
by convolvatron 5y ago
Actually there was this really novel language CM-lisp <https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.108.5413&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.10...>
that one never got off the ground - I always assumed because of the difficulty of compiling that for a SIMD machine.
*Lisp was fine, but it was really just a projection of the Paris model.
- agambrahma 5y agoInteresting how the paper uses notation similar to Mathematica today i.e. `foo -> bar` to denote replacement, and curly braces to group together a set of these.
- sedachv 5y agoThere was also Gary Sabot's work on Paralation Lisp (really interesting approach to declaratively specifying data locality), and later Guy Blelloch's NESL (the first programming language to really deal with nested parallelism) for the CM-2.