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The Force

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The Force - A data parallel language by Harry Jordan <harry@boulder.colorado.edu> which extends Fortran for shared memory multiprocessors. It features parallel "case" statements and critical sections.

["The Force", H. Jordan, in "The Characteristics of Parallel Algorithms", L. Jamieson et al eds, MIT Press 1987, pp. 395-436].


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It is acted upon by three independent forces: the resistance of the air, the attraction of the earth, and the force of impulsion with which it is endowed.
The regiments who had seen the feat cheered wildly at this exhibition of the white man's magic, which they took as an omen of success, while the force the general had belonged to--which, indeed, as we ascertained afterwards, he had commanded--fell back in confusion.
how chang'd From him, who in the happy Realms of Light Cloth'd with transcendent brightnes didst outshine Myriads though bright: If he whom mutual league, United thoughts and counsels, equal hope, And hazard in the Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with me once, now misery hath joynd In equal ruin: into what Pit thou seest From what highth fal'n, so much the stronger provd He with his Thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire Arms?
 
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