16 Jan
2011
16 Jan
'11
12:42 a.m.
Although Fortress is originally designed as an object-oriented framework in which to build an array-style scientific programming language, [...] as we've experimented with it and tried to get the parallelism going we found ourselves pushed more and more in the direction of using immutable data structures and a functional style of programming. [...] If I'd known seven years ago what I know now, I would have started with Haskell and pushed it a tenth of the way toward Fortran instead of starting with Fortran and pushing it nine tenths of the way toward Haskell.
This is at 49th minute into the talk :) Really nice to hear him say this. Regards, Kashyap