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"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 ne
by rectang 4y ago
"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.
- edgedetector 4y agoWe'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.
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- waynecochran 4y agoProbably 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.