The X10 Programming Language

http://www.x10-lang.org/

by bensummers • 16 years ago

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x10-lang.org

shawndumas• 16 years ago

lol [1]

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard)

ax0n2• 16 years ago

I was thinking of the same thing... And all the X10.com ads that were the pervasive bane of everyone's Internet existence in the late 1990s.

hugh33• 16 years ago

Check out the FAQ:

Don't you know that X10 is the name of industry-standard communications protocol?

Oops. C'est la vie. Next question, please.

Groxx2• 16 years ago

It's also got to be one of the hardest language names to type. Shift+bottom row ring-finger, number-row far left, number-row far right.

(love the comment, btw. In part because I first thought the standard was going to try to make a comeback, from the title alone. Upon seeing it was a language, that was my exact reaction.)

lzimm• 16 years ago

hmm, X10 is to Erlang what Scala is to Java?

wmf2• 16 years ago

Not really. Erlang is for reliable concurrent transactional computing while X10 is for parallel scientific computing. You might say that X10 aims to replace Fortan.

hugh33• 16 years ago

Excellent. It's about time that something did.

Well really, C++ is rapidly replacing Fortran for scientific computing, but it ain't all that much better for it. I'm excited about the idea that this replaces MPI.

p4bl02• 16 years ago

Then it's doomed IMO, since there's Fortress (http://projectfortress.sun.com/) out threre developed at the Sun Labs and which seems to be a better candidate to replace Fortran.

eclw• 16 years ago

Wonderful user guides, but somewhat incomplete, apparently.

helwr• 16 years ago

check out external links here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_%28programming_language%29

ax0n2• 16 years ago

Old: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564795

acqq• 16 years ago

And as quesera here writes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565788

    1 //Tutorial file HelloWorld.x10
    2 class HelloWorld {
    3   public static def main(argv:Rail[String]) {
    4     x10.io.Console.OUT.println("Hello, World");
    5   }
    6 }

...ayfkm? You've already failed.

Groxx2• 16 years ago

omg, it gets worse than that. From their (incomplete!) online tutorial, which downloads an HTML file instead of displaying it:

>Xiom: The global/non-global distinction in X10 is intended to make you powerful, not miserable. This will not be obvious while you are getting used to X10.

(a (lame) play on "Axiom")

The tutorial documentation goes downhill even further after that. I'm having trouble deciding if this is real or an extraordinarily elaborate April Fool's day joke.

tomlin• 16 years ago

Seriously? Couldn't have picked another name? :)

motters• 16 years ago

Bad choice of name. X10 is a system for modulating mains electricity supply in order to send signals, for example to switch lights on or off. A simple Google search would have told them this. It's probably not a good idea to name your new language in such a way that it can be easily confused with other kinds of technology.

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