In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Michele deleted an attribution: >> >> <snip> So I've always had it in >> the back of my mind that languages that can easily support massive >> (especially automatic) parallelization will have their day in the sun, >> at least someday. > >and the language of the future will be called ... FORTRAN! > >:-) > >(joking, but it is the only language I know supporting massive >parallelization ...)
Less of a joke than you think, perhaps. Back in the early 1980s, a family friend said something like, "In the year 2000, there will be a programming language. I don't know what it will look like, and I don't know what it will do. But I do know one thing: it will be called FORTRAN." After all, FORTRAN 2003 contains OOP support.... -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
