If you told an alien visitor from Vega—or a computer architect with a time machine from 1980—that an Nvidia GPU was built to be a language on a chip, I wonder w

If you told an alien visitor from Vega—or a computer architect with a time machine from 1980—that an Nvidia GPU was built to be a language on a chip, I wonder what they’d infer about the nature of that language? I don’t think they’d describe CUDA. Something more APL-like, I’d imagine. EDIT: Maybe … https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/319838.319870 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/319838.319870