Sisal is a pure *(functional) *(programming language) that beats _(FORTRAN)
for number crunching, especially as it allows lots of automatic optimizations
for parallel architectures.

Unhappily, while focusing on number crunching performance, Sisal forgot
many of those things that make functional programming so cool, and it
seems that they got multidimensional arrays wrong, so there's room for a
better language than SISAL.

People at LLNL have decided to stop developing SISAL so as to focus on
their main job: designing weapons of mass destruction, for which they'll
use _(FORTRAN) and _(C++). Let's hope these lame languages will help confuse
them in their evil quest for a worse world. Meanwhile, former SISAL
developers are working on a sequel to SISAL, _(SAC).

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<UL CLASS="links">
<LI>_("SISAL Tutorial" | http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~jrwg/Sisal/)</LI>
</UL>
<UL CLASS="implementations">
<LI>_("SISAL Lives!" | http://sisal.sourceforge.net)</LI>
</UL>