When something works well, you can feel it; there is a sense of rightness to it. We call that rightness beauty, and it ought to be the single most important component of design.This recognition is at the heart of David Gelernter's witty argued essay, Machine Beauty, which defines beauty as an inspired mating of simplicity and power. You can see it in a Bauhaus chair, the Hoover Dam, or an Emerson radio circa 1930. In contrast, too many contemporary technologists run out of ideas and resort to gimmicks and features; they are rarely capable of real, structural ingenuity.Nowhere is this more...

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, held in Santa Clara, California, in August 1991. The purpose of the workshop, held every year since 1988, is to bring together the leading researchers on parallel programming language design and compilation techniques for parallel computers. The papers in this book cover several major topics, including languages and structures to represent programs internally in the compiler, techniques for analyzing and manipulating sequential loops in order to generate a parallel version,...