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"How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010)

Strange Loop Conference · talk · Watch on YouTube

Programming language designFunctional programmingHistory of computing

What it is

Guy Steele's Strange Loop 2010 talk argues that programmers should not have to think about parallelism, and that languages should support algorithms built on independence and divide-and-conquer. He also recounts fitting a program onto a single punch card.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a fantastic talk, valued both for its parallelism ideas and for the punch-card story.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “It's a fantastic talk in its own right”

    Fitting programs onto punch cards, eye opening

    svieira, 2023-11 · Strong recommendation · in “In the bad old days we had Punchcards. How did people deal with that?”

  2. “There are a few good talks that he gives”

    Guy Steele talk on parallelism

    MathMonkeyMan, 2023-07 · Recommendation · in “Coroutines for Go”

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Topics: guy steele, parallelism, functional programming, language design, punch cards

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