Re: 2nd votes

Gary Howell (howell@zach.fit.edu)
Thu, 12 Sep 96 10:49:28 -0400

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As someone who attended MPI-1 but not MPI-2, I am concerned that MPI
is and has been evolving too rapidly. For those with long memories,
it evokes comparison with PL/1. Or perhaps VAX assembly. These evolved
into rather too complicated constructs, and arrived at the evolutionary
dead-end common to extravagant species and are now more or less extinct.
Higher bars for new change will probably be helpful to MPI's
long run usefulness to a larger public.

Regards, Gary Howell
Florida Tech Applied Math

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