On function languages and parallel computers |
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Authors: | Amos R Omondi |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Computer Science, 103 Smith Hall, University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716, USA b Current address: Department of Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | This paper is a discussion of functional languages and parallel computers. It is aimed at an audience that has a background in computer architecture, but not necessarily in the area of functional languages. It therefore constitutes an introductory survey of functional languages, on the one hand, and a non-introductory discussion of parallel computers, on the other. The aim is to highlight some important issues regarding the use of adequacy of these languages and also on the design of parallel computers to interpret them. The concluding thesis of put forth is twofold: one, that to widen their scope of applicability, functional languages need to include more features of nondeterminism and may need to be integrated with features from conventional languages; two, that the right sort of architectures for such extended languages may well be less-specialised ones with a von Neumann flavour. |
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