Thu Aug 18 14:01:12 CDT 2011

Another small step for Unix

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How Google got some of the legends behind Unix, C, Plan 9, Aleph,
and Limbo to come work for them and create Go, I have no idea.

What is clear to me is that Google has an investment in not  only
these people, but also Unix - but more to the point, Plan 9.

Plan  9 was ported to IBM's BlueGene super computers a while ago;
but now the small step forward - Go is being ported to  BG's  PPC
architecture.

        click here to see

I  am  not  suggesting that Google is going to use the BG to mine
your gmail accounts, but this to me is yet another act of  Google
inserting  itself into computing history - right after Bell Labs.

Go will never replace MPI/OpenMP/CAF/Fortran/C for these kind  of
machines,  but  you never know. It might be used in product where
other HPCS languages (Chapel, Fortress, X10) have failed to  move
beyond the toy stage.

In otherwords, I think this is a very, very big deal.


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