On Jun 20, 3:34 am, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@laposte.net> wrote:
> On 19.06.2009, at 10:35, Jon Harrop wrote:
>
> > If you really do mean scientific applications in general (e.g.
> > Mathematica,
> > MATLAB) then I would say that they are definitely almost all
> > running on
> > multicore desktops and not distributed clusters.
>
> What I really meant is "scientific applications typically written by
> scientists", and in my experience that is mostly number-crunching
> stuff, if only because that's all most scientists would care to
> write. Mathematica and MATLAB are written and maintained by
> professional programmers.
>
> > Shared-memory parallelism is certainly a major problem in
> > scientific computing
> > today so I, for one, would love to see parallelized Clojure
> > solutions to
> > interesting problems (even toys). What sort of basic infrastructure
> > would you
> > use in Clojure, e.g. equivalent to Microsoft's TPL?
>
> What't TPL?
>
> Konrad.
Pretty cool. I went to school 10 years ago and Lisp was supposed to
be language of choice for AI but the implementations didn't seem
practical. I think Clojure brings a lot of useful libraries and
usefulness to the Lisp world. Maybe we will see the emergence of Lisp
again.
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