[Dynamite] July (attn Ewan)

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Fri, 19 May 2000 18:17:27 +0100 (GMT)


On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ian Holmes wrote:

> funny -- you were the one who once told me how functional programming
> languages were good for parallelisation!

;) indeed. But for DP - well - you moved too fast for me.

> 
> It's easy enough in principle(?) -- the DP algorithm can be written as a
> mathematical function which makes the parallel nature of the beast
> clear...
> 
> I think that a lot of work that has been done on microcode generation
> applies to functional programming languages.
> 
> I actually think all this is beyond our design goals, and probably won't
> end up being of direct use; but for me it would be interesting to know
> anyway.
> 
> We have more pressing concerns though (like writing a poster abstract).
> What else should we put in it? Shall we do it on Wiki?

wiki away. biowiki.org?

> 
> Ian
> 
> -- 
> Ian Holmes  ....  Howard Hughes Medical Institute  ....  ihh@fruitfly.org
> 
> On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Guys.
> > 
> > I have to admint - you are losing me (doh! I feel stupid!).
> > 
> > 
> > 
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