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		morbidkk on Nov 13, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching ... so java programmers get deep into java.util.concurrent

crabapple on Nov 13, 2008 [–]

no, java programmers pick up haskell is more likely.

jimbokun on Nov 13, 2008 | [–]

no, clojure

crabapple on Nov 14, 2008 | | [–]

no, haskell. clojure in the end runs on the jvm. the ghc compiler has parallelism baked into it in a fundamental way.

don't get me wrong, i like clojure, but it won't be better for multicore until the jvm is better for multicore

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