Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: cgra@se.alcbel.be (Chris Gray)
Reply-To: cgra@se.bel.alcatel.be
Subject: Re: Conundrum: Where is the parallelism lost?
Organization: Never was my forte
Date: 16 Sep 1994 12:33:26 GMT
Message-ID: <35c3am$h3o@btmplq.god.bel.alcatel.be>


Jerzy Michal Pawlak writes:

> [...]
> So - well, I'd love to get a student who knows nothing about programming
> (very difficult these days, when kids have 'computers' at home), teach him
> OCCAM as the first programming language and see what comes out...

One of my colleagues specialised in transputers and Occam during his studies,
and he says that when he was released into the Real World (tm) and had to
program sequentially he had problems: sequential programming didn't come
naturally to him.  Of course after a few years on 80x86s he's more or less
cured ;>

(Just an anecdote, really)

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Chris Gray     cgra@btma74.se.bel.alcatel.be       Compu$erve: 100065,2102
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