On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 13:27 +0200, Thomas Hartman wrote:
To recap: transform a piece of simple code that works in serial, so it works in parallel. Maybe even a couple, or three ways: using forks, using threads, using map reduce.
This made me think of one of my favorite observations. You occasionally hear how the wonderful static type system just forces your program to be correct: if they compile, they work. We all know that this is an exaggeration, but there is one case when this seems to apply - when refactoring already working code. IME, it seems that whenever I tear my programs apart, as long as the type checker agrees the pieces all fit back together, the program works as i expect it to. (Perhaps not so easy to apply this to a tutorial setting?) -k