An old, but excellent article. I had the good fortune, in ancient history, to get some hacking time in on the first type of Connection Machine (the SIMD one). And the best part was, wait for it ..., was that you programmed it in *Lisp.
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What were the distinctive things about *Lisp? I've heard of it but don't know much.
There's a chapter in Hillis' thesis on it (which this re-posting has just prompted me to finally read):
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14719