Parallel programming paper

[Bruce Adams]

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:47:19 +0100, Edward Diener  
<eddielee_no_spam_here at tropicsoft.com> wrote:

> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Has anyone heard of this?:
>>  Erasmus: A Modular Language for Concurrent Programming
>> http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~grogono/Erasmus/E01.pdf
>>  I haven't really read it all the way through but it was mentioned on  
>> another list I'm on.  Sounds a lot like Erlang to me at first glance.  
>> But I don't really know Erlang. :-)
>>  May be interesting food for thought.
>
> Why people write articles without defining basic terminology, as if like  
> Humpty Dumpty in "Alice in Wonderland" words should mean whatever they  
> determine them to mean, is a mystery to me.
>
> Reading a number of pages in the article, relating to OOP versus  
> "processes", no definition of the latter term was even given ! Because  
> of that I gave it a D- and quit.
>
> What is really needed is a university whose sole purpose is to teach  
> computer programmers how to write discursive essays. Those who appear to  
> be the most talented often have no clue.

To be fair, whatever you are writing you have to make certain assumptions  
about your
readers background knowledge. You can't introduce every term every time.
For academic papers the target audience is most certainly not the D  
newsgroup.
The range of abilities and backgrounds here is too vast to cover without  
several
weighty tomes many of which would be boring to some. GIYF (Google is your  
friend).