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On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Georg Bauhaus posted:

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|"[..]                                                                |
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|As Dmitry Kazakov has recently said, when Ada run-time systems       |
|starts addressing the properties of multicore hardware               |
|there is hope that it could really shine: Not just because concurrent|
|sequential processes are so simple to express using Ada tasks        |
|---and you'd be using only language, not a mix of libraries,         |
|preprocessors, specialized compilers, programming conventions,       |
|etc.  But also in case the fine grained complexity of OpenMP 3.0     |
|can be bridled by simple language and a good run-time system.        |
|At little cost."                                                     |
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I met someone today who described himself as "an ordinary FORTRAN
programmer" who advocated C for the practical reason that libraries
are designed for C. He claimed that small tasks are good for multicore
and large tasks are good for GPUs.