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Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution, Guy Steele (2009) [video]
- AlexanderDhoore 13y agoToo bad Oracle axed the Fortress language. I wonder if Guy is still working on it.
- Grothendieck 13y agoIt seems like the answer is no (GS is Guy Steele): "I spent nine years on Fortress, a scientific programming language (the project is finished now, we decided to stop working on it)." http://ezyang.tumblr.com/post/62157468762/haskell-haskell-and-ghc-too-big-to-fail-panel http://ezyang.tumblr.com/post/62157468762/haskell-haskell-an... For more on purely functional parallelism, see Guy Blelloch's research (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/research.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/research.html) and CMU's algorithms course (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15210-f11/www/resources.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15210-f11/www/r...) and parallel algorithms course (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15499-s09/www https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15499-s09/www), and Manticore, a parallel SML (http://manticore.cs.uchicago.edu/ http://manticore.cs.uchicago.edu/).