[Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

[Robert G. Brown]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:

> Quote...
> "Three things in life a man must do,
> Before his days are done.
> Write two lines of APL...
> And make the sucker run."
>
> OK, so it's not PL-I but APL was another interesting beast.  A friend had 
> written an entire StarTrek game, including a 3d universe, in APL and we 
> wasted cycles waiting for long jobs on the Amdahl 470v6 to complete that 
> way...

Great little poem.  I didn't write tic-tac-toe -- zero sum games that
always can be drawn being a bit on the boring side -- but I did write
MasterMind (the code-breaking game) on an IBM 5100 in APL.  I lived to
regret it, too, as by strange chance John Titor claimed to have come
back from the future to collect an IBM 5100 (see, sigh, the wikipedia
article on Titor if you're VERY bored today) and a group of fairly
active Titor-busters homed in on me as a potential Titor, because I
mentioned this fact on this very forum a decade or so ago and google
revealed this awful truth.

It took more than two lines of APL, though...

    rgb

>
> Ellis Wilson wrote:
>> Wow, PL-I, I'm learning about that in my language design class.  While it 
>> brought a bunch of new items to the computing field, can't say I'm upset I 
>> didn't code in it :).
>> 
>> Sorry guys, I came into existence just about the time the internet was 
>> opened up from just NSF to commercial interest, so punch cards are a little 
>> out of my league.  I must say though, this certainly beats the heck out of 
>> a history of computing languages class any day!
>> 
>> Ellis
>> 
>> */Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>/* wrote:
>>
>>     Didn't you have a tic-tac-toe game on punch cards written in PL-1?
>>
>>     John Leidel wrote:
>>      > Friends don't let friends play tic-tac-toe using punchcards :-)
>>      >
>>      > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:20 -0700, David Mathog wrote:
>>      >> Jim Lux wrote
>>      >>
>>      >>> and, as we all know, real developers
>>      >>> use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls.
>>      >> You forgot paper tape. (Most people who used it probably wish they
>>      >> could forget it too!)
>>      >>
>>      >> Anyway, all of the tools you mentioned are for wimps - real
>>      >> programmers load code directly into memory using the toggle
>>      >> switches on the front of the computer.
>>      >>
>>      >> Regards,
>>      >>
>>      >> David Mathog
>>      >> mathog at caltech.edu
>>      >> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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