[Pl-seminar] 8/15: Justin Slepak, "Array-Oriented Programming"

[Aaron Turon]

NEU Programming Languages Seminar presents

Justin Slepak
Northeastern University

Wednesday 8/15
11:45am
Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)

Array-Oriented Programming

John Backus's Turing lecture identified a "word-at-a-time" programming
style as an eventual limiting factor in high-performance computing.
Array-oriented languages avoid this by operating on arrays as
aggregates, creating the opportunity for easier parallelization. They
also offer a very expressive programming model that can easily be kept
sub-Turing. A tutorial demonstrating the expressiveness of this
paradigm will be given using the language J, followed by a discussion
of other array-oriented languages and potential improvements for this
class of programming systems.