Parallel programming paper

[Jim Fox via Digitalmars-d]

Ed, the "humanistic" programmer.  It fits.

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Jim Fox (RPI Physics grad and roommate; now full bore 
software/database programmer/administrator LOL)

On Sunday, 6 April 2008 at 01:47:20 UTC, Edward Diener 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.