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From: jont@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jon Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Coverage of multitasking
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Date: 12 Aug 89 16:16:53 GMT
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Reply-To: jont@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jon Taylor)
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gene schwartman writes
>       interested in it. How are you going to explain to a student that can
>       barely understand how to write a decent algorithm, etc.. about parallel
>       programming.  As somebody has stated, first you crawl, then you walk,
>       then you run..  I would classify what you stated as a jog :-)

Arguing along the lines of Bachus' attack on the Von Neumann
intellectual bottleneck, it could be said that you are too fixed in
your ways. Couldn't it be the case that teaching parallel programming
second to sequential is putting blinkers on students. Is it not
possible that by teaching them to think of parallel algorithms first you
may get a whole new set of novel answers to programming problems ?

Slap me around the face is you think I am dreaming. It's happened
before. I can take it.

Jon Taylor
Dept. of Computer Science,
Queen Mary College,
University of London.
email : jont@uk.ac.qmc.cs