[Haskell-cafe] Why?

[Stephen Tetley]

2009/12/10 Sebastian Sylvan <sebastian.sylvan at gmail.com>:
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> The killer app for that, IMO, is parallelism these days.

Parallelism has been a killer app for quite a long time:

Darlington's ALICE running Hope:
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acd/dcs/projects/p011.htm

Clean was originally targeted to parallel machines:
http://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/FAQ

Many, many more:
http://www.di.unipi.it/didadoc/lfc/OtherPapers/parallelism/parallel-introduction.pdf
http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/schreine/papers/pfpbib.ps.gz

Best wishes

Stephen