In responce to a slashdot article on "All-Purpose Distributed Computing"
(http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/08/09/1214204) I wrote:
I hate to break this to you but some purely functional programming
languages can already do this [automatically execute programs in
parallel]. Haskell is a Lazy, Purely Functional programming language with
strict typing. More information on Haskell can be found at
www.haskell.org. The GHC compiler is capapable of executing
Haskell programs in parallel with out any additional work on the
programmers part. However, it is not very efficent right now.
Then an Anonymous Coward replyed:
Is their a good online tutorial and reference for Haskell? Last time I
looked all I could find were pointers to books and links to Amazon.Com. Oh
yes, and some moldy academic papers in postscript format. I think it would
behoove those in the communities of less well know languages to provide
good online instruction and reference material. I'm not going to pop 60
bucks to learn another language that may or may not meet my needs. Try
before you buy.
So is there?
That could be _one_ of the reasons Java did so well.....
--
KevinA
