From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA02616; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:05:40 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA02631 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:05:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA24728 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:34:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from quetelet.bik-gmbh.de (quetelet.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.132]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f516YU111639 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:34:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hars by quetelet.bik-gmbh.de with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 155iVQ-00020E-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jun 2001 08:33:56 +0200 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:33:56 +0200 From: Florian Hars To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] SISAL (Was: report describing optimization of numerical computing...) Message-ID: <20010601083356.A7669@hars> References: <20010601041024.31292.qmail@web11906.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010601041024.31292.qmail@web11906.mail.yahoo.com>; from tom7ca@yahoo.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:10:24PM -0700 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:10:24PM -0700, Tom _ wrote: > I'd recommend also taking a look at SISAL > (http://www.llnl.gov/sisal/). I think SISAL is *the* premiere example of why scientific computing is still avoiding modern languages and favors FORTRAN instead: | While trying to retrieve the URL: | http://redhook.llnl.gov/iscr/projects/crg/sisal.tutorial/ | | The following error was encountered: | Unable to determine IP address from host name for redhook.llnl.gov | While trying to retrieve the URL: | ftp://sisal.llnl.gov/pub/sisal/Small.Sisal.Interpreter.dir | | The following error was encountered: | Unable to determine IP address from host name for sisal.llnl.gov It was a one shot project with no long term perspective, even the code is gone and none of the official distribution sites do exist any more. The lifetime of the language didn't even span the lifetime of a typical high energy physics experiment. A physicist who had bet his professional success on SISAL would be turning burgers at McDonalds by now. Yours, Florian Hars. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr