[eurolisp] Re: More parallel/concurrent stuff

[Mario Mommer]

> mario.mommer at gmx.net (Mario S. Mommer) writes:
> > Dirk Gerrits <dirk at dirkgerrits.com> writes:
> >> mario.mommer at gmx.net (Mario S. Mommer) writes:
> >>> Look at what I found here:
> >>>
> >>> http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html
> >>
> >> At first glance this looks somewhat similar to Connection Machine Lisp,
> >> but at a larger scale.
> >
> > Aha... *lisp, you mean?
> 
> I mean this paper:
> http://fresh.homeunix.net/~luke/misc/ConnectionMachineLisp.pdf

These folks had a helluva time writing this paper, I reckon.

Indeed, the map/reduce mechanism seems to be a simplified version of a
subset of CMLisp.

I'm also having a helluva time reading this paper. Among other things I am
happy to know that there exists prior art.

Regards,
        Mario.