"Aahz" <a...@py....aft.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.52.1234797812.11746.python-l...@python.org>, > Hendrik van Rooyen <ma....orp.co.za> wrote: > > > >Occam was the language that should have won the marketing prize, but > >didn't. > > It wasn't simple enough. I thought (at the time) that it was quite good at hiding some horrible complexities of communication between different processes on the same, and different processors. All done by the compiler, automagically. I think now that a hard look at the underlying techniques used then could add something to the debate referred to earlier - but there may be a barrier because the dataflow or systolic array type programming model is not one that is currently fashionable. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
