Stranded?!This is a discussion on Stranded?! within the Functional forums in Programming Languages category; Dear Functional Big Brains, What has happened to the "Strand" language? I have a book sitting on my shelves that I very much enjoyed reading, "Strand: New Concepts in Parallel Programming" by Ian Foster and Stephen Taylor (Prentice Hall, 1990, ISBN 0-13-850587-X). It's also back when really good text books weren't all written in Mandarin. And what has happened to the spirit of that book? The wonderful energizing drawings conveying concepts of parallelism throughout, that encourage 10 year olds to pick it up? And what is all this "sub-prime" jiberee joo? As far as I can see it's a euphemism ... | ||||||||
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08-29-2008, 04:27 PM
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 Stranded?! Dear Functional Big Brains, What has happened to the "Strand" language? I have a book sitting on my shelves that I very much enjoyed reading, "Strand: New Concepts in Parallel Programming" by Ian Foster and Stephen Taylor (Prentice Hall, 1990, ISBN 0-13-850587-X). It's also back when really good text books weren't all written in Mandarin. And what has happened to the spirit of that book? The wonderful energizing drawings conveying concepts of parallelism throughout, that encourage 10 year olds to pick it up? And what is all this "sub-prime" jiberee joo? As far as I can see it's a euphemism for "bad". (I've just come back from a trip to Alpha Centuri.) With kind regards, Sandy  |
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