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Foil 98 Expressing Problem Structure in Language

From GCF Talk U - Lewis/NASA 3/9/92 Mardi Gras Conference on Concurrent Computing in Physical Sciences -- February 18, 1993. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Key idea behind data-parallel languages - and perhaps all good languages
The language expresses problem and not the machine architecture
Need different approach to express functional parallelism
Use"object-oriented" feature when problems has natural objects
Do not use "object-oriented" features when objects are artifacts of target machine
Need data and functional (object) parallel paradigms in many problems - especially multidisciplinary

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