Programming Language Requirements for the Next Millennium William G. Griswold, Richard Wolski, Scott B. Baden, Stephen J. Fink Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 fwgg,rich,baden,sfinkg@cs.ucsd.edu Scott R. Kohn Department of Chemistry University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0340 skohn@chem.ucsd.edu The needs of the high-performance programming community will be met by combining the best features of programming languages and layered libraries. In particular, we believe that the community can bene t from a small, stable programming language with abstraction features that support the development of self-tuning, optimizing, easily adaptable, integrable layered systems. 1. PROBLEM: THE NEW WORLD DISORDER Our technology infrastructure has become so highly evolved that the changes it induces are perceptible daily, subjecting our lives to continuous, often tumultuous change. Change is now so rapid that the decisions that we make to enhance our livelihoods|from education to product development to technology research itself| can become obsolete before they are made. As a result, the application software that helps us make these decisions is becoming increasingly performance limited. Moreover, the applications themselves need to be quickly evolvable both to address these rapidly arising problems and to incorporate
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