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akkartik on Nov 12, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anic -- Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler th...

It looks tantalizing, and I love shell scripts, and I've spent countless hours wishing for pipes in my programming language.

But: when it says, "ANI is designed to abstract away from the idea of an "algorithm" altogether," I go, "quackery."

stcredzero on Nov 13, 2010 [–]

There are things which aren't algorithms, but which can embody the same strategy as an algorithm, like sorting networks. Instead of series of steps, the sorting network specifies a bunch of data flows, wherein things can happen in parallel.

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