From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,6f568a2e6507575 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: f891f,6f568a2e6507575 X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,6f568a2e6507575 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-26 19:14:26 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news2.rdc2.tx.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AE8E55C.303BC43E@home.com> From: Larry Elmore X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Play with virtual machines (Was: Thoughts and Opinions...) References: <3AE67F57.722A78D8@andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk> <3AE69665.63E362CD@info.unicaen.fr> <3AE6DAB3.899FF645@andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk> <3AE7E37B.F384DCDA@info.unicaen.fr> <3AE81234.267643AC@kfunigraz.ac.at> <3WUF6.751$sk1.133177@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 02:14:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.10.25.74 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news2.rdc2.tx.home.com 988337665 65.10.25.74 (Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:14:25 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:14:25 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:6964 comp.lang.functional:5341 comp.lang.misc:1160 Date: 2001-04-27T02:14:25+00:00 List-Id: "chris.danx" wrote: > > "Siegfried Gonzi" wrote in message > news:3AE81234.267643AC@kfunigraz.ac.at... > > Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: > > > > > It is a pity that an array-oriented FUNCTIONAL language: Sisal > > > is dead. This is an ecological niche wide open. > > > > I know from a physicist at LLNL that Sisal had been the only "functional" > > language with the potential to compare in speed against Fortran. But nobody > > knows why they dropped Sisal. What about J? Larry