Parallel programming is the focus of increasing interest
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#2And appropriately enough the last article published under the topic 'Programming Languages' was published on Apr 3rd 2003.
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#3"“We’re not going to have faster processors,” says Katherine Yelick, a computer scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California."
Seems a little premature, I wouldn't rule out some big leap forward in processor technology. Very good article though.
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#4It's not just new languages, it's new algorithms, most problems aren't trivially parallel.
The problems that are trivially parallel are well suited to be solved by functional/reactive programming via languages like Haskell, Erlang, Scala, F# and Ocaml.
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#5When I read an article in the Economist about some topic I know a lot about I tend to finish feeling that they've oversimplified a bit. When I read an article elsewhere in the mainstream media about some topic I know a lot about I tend to finish feeling that the reporter had no idea what they were talking about.
That's why I have a print subscription to the Economist.
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#6The Economist: one of the few old-school journalism enterprises not to make its way forward by appealing to the lowest common denominator of the potential audience. They go for a smaller audience but can focus much more tightly on what that audience wants: smart, concise explanations of serious issues.
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#7Why is this so surprising? The Economist, like the New Yorker, is famed for its great journalism that covers very wide areas, much wider than Economics, in the case of the former, or the current events in New York, for the latter.
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#8When I read an article in the Economist about some topic I know a lot about I tend to finish feeling that they've oversimplified a bit. When I read an article elsewhere in the mainstream media about some topic I know a lot about I tend to finish feeling that the reporter had no idea what they were talking about. That's why I have a print subscription to the Economist.
I only subscribe to one periodical, and it's the Economist. I even get most of my news from there, even if it's a few days old by the time I get to it, because if it's important enough to read about, it won't matter if it's a bit old.
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#9When I read an article in the Economist about some topic I know a lot about I tend to finish feeling that they've oversimplified a bit. When I read an article elsewhere in the mainstream media about some topic I know a lot about I tend to finish feeling that the reporter had no idea what they were talking about. That's why I have a print subscription to the Economist.
Same here. Only print subscription I retain at this point. FT would be a close second if not for the fact that their website is beyond terrible.
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#10One thing that might help is moving away from event loop based UI interaction, like we see in Windows. One effort in this direction was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS.