C*

C* is an object-oriented, data-parallel superset of ANSI C with synchronous semantics, for the Connection Machine, designed by Thinking Machines, 1987. C* adds a "domain" data type and a selection statement for parallel execution in domains. An unimplemented language called "Parallel C" influenced the design of C*. Dataparallel-C was based on C*. The latest version of C* as of 27 August 1993 is 6.x. This article was originally based on material f... more
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