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Article #4264Re: Wirth's paper "From Modula to Oberon"
From: Sean Brunnock
Date: Mon, 23 May 1988 00:59
Date: Mon, 23 May 1988 00:59
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From article <5260@ico.ISC.COM>, by rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn):
> John Nagle:
>> In each of Wirth's languages there is some tragic flaw, something
>> that drives users straight up the walls. What will it be in Oberon?
> The lack of a counted loop ("for" statement) gets my nomination for tragic
> flaw.
I find this curious. I read Hillis' thesis recently (The Connection
Machine) and he states that with a massively parallel computer such as
his, there is no need for a for loop. Operations are done on entire
sets of numbers or other data at a time.
I have not read Wirth's paper closely (but I shall soon). Do you
think Wirth had massively parallel machines in mind when writing
Oberon? As far as I know there is only one language, MultiLISP, that
is available for the Connection Machine.
Sean Brunnock
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!necntc!dandelion!ulowell!sbrunnoc@eagle.ulowell.edu From: sbrunnoc@eagle.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Wirth's paper "From Modula to Oberon" Message-ID: <7195@swan.ulowell.edu> Date: 23 May 88 00:59:49 GMT References: <5260@ico.ISC.COM> Sender: news@swan.ulowell.edu Lines: 19