New Languages Vs. Old For Parallel Programming 321
joabj writes "Getting the most from multicore processors is becoming an increasingly difficult task for programmers. DARPA has commissioned a number of new programming languages, notably X10 and Chapel, written especially for developing programs that can be run across multiple processors, though others see them as too much of a departure to ever gain widespread usage among coders."
Re:Parallel is here to stay but not for every app (Score:2, Funny)
The individual cores aren't going to get that much faster in the years to come
I'm sure I've heard something like this before...
Re:What's so hard? (Score:4, Funny)
One. Newline characters are for wimps.
Re:Awful example in the article (Score:2, Funny)
The example in the article is atrocious.
Why would you want the withdrawal and balance check to run concurrently?
Because it would make it much easier to profit from self-introduced race conditions and other obscure bugs when I get to the ATM tomorrow :)
Re:Chapel? (Score:4, Funny)
Don't you know that early modern English was invented to have something standard into which the bible could be translated? For shame!
As a devoted secularist, I'll just burn all my shakespeare and rushdie after I delete all my perl code.