[OT] python notation in new NVIDIA architecture

[Tim Roberts]

"Daniel Nogradi" <nogradi at gmail.com> wrote:

>Something funny:
>
>The new programming model of NVIDIA GPU's is called CUDA and I've
>noticed that they use the same __special__ notation for certain things
>as does python. For instance their modified C language has identifiers
>such as __device__, __global__, __shared__, etc. Is it a coincidence?
>Probably it is. :)

Well, identifiers starting with an underline are reserved for
implementation use in ISO standard C++, so the chicken and egg question is
an interesting one..
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