IBM's Brain Chips now to get a Fortran
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Since last year's first unveiling of the "Brain-like" chips, IBM's now starting to get to a programming language in order to actually "use" them: IBM Looks to Human Brain to Devise New Programming Model[^] They spoke about a "Fortran" for these "neural" chips. I wonder if that means all programming concepts are out the window then? Seeing as the neural chips are widely different from the usual "von Neumann" architecture, the concepts might also need to be. And starting at "scratch" (so to speak) by building some language equivalent to the 1st "3rd" generation language ever sounds like some indication of much new ideas in the future! So ... :rolleyes: ... anyone up for making the NeuralLisp a year after they've completed the NueralFortran? You know ... just to repeat history :laugh:
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Since last year's first unveiling of the "Brain-like" chips, IBM's now starting to get to a programming language in order to actually "use" them: IBM Looks to Human Brain to Devise New Programming Model[^] They spoke about a "Fortran" for these "neural" chips. I wonder if that means all programming concepts are out the window then? Seeing as the neural chips are widely different from the usual "von Neumann" architecture, the concepts might also need to be. And starting at "scratch" (so to speak) by building some language equivalent to the 1st "3rd" generation language ever sounds like some indication of much new ideas in the future! So ... :rolleyes: ... anyone up for making the NeuralLisp a year after they've completed the NueralFortran? You know ... just to repeat history :laugh:
Fortran. Yummy. I can't remember the exact syntax but was it a statement like GOTO 10,15,30 N that was the bane of Fortran developer's lives? Bring back column 6. Don't go beyond column 72. Ahhhh, those were the days. :)
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Fortran. Yummy. I can't remember the exact syntax but was it a statement like GOTO 10,15,30 N that was the bane of Fortran developer's lives? Bring back column 6. Don't go beyond column 72. Ahhhh, those were the days. :)
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
Yep, let's hope IBM implements stuff like if-then-else, while, for, etc. structures in this "Fortran" - i.e. not simply a Fortran 1 (IMO worse than ASM). I'd hate to be stuck with conditional goto's. Otherwise someone will HAVE TO invent a Lisp for it, just so we can at least use some decent programming concepts.