Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi,comp.parallel.pvm
From: lindahl@cs.virginia.edu (Greg Lindahl)
Subject: Re: Why explicit message passing??
Organization: a guest of Shadow Island Games
Date: 2 Apr 1998 12:27:19 GMT
Message-ID: <6g0077$iv7@news3.newsguy.com>

Kamran Karimi <kamran@wallybox.cei.net> writes:

> >Your argument is confused. New programming systems often support the
> >old in order to ease the transition; [...]
> 
>  No. What I am after is trying to stop "new" distributed programmers to
> follow the current trends. Distributed programming will be much more popular
> in future than it is now. it would not be very good if the current
> investsments influenced the future in a negative way.

The current trends are still fine for some problems. You seem to
believe that one interface can work for all problems. That isn't true.
State-of-the-art distributed systems (I work on one) can support both
traditional interfaces and new ones. Those of us who make
recommendations are then free to suggest the right tool for the job.