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FWIW, in 1967 I was programming in Tranquil, an Algol-like language which had two levels. It was developed for the Illiac IV, the first massively parallel computer (which did not physically exist at that point). IlliacIV had four quadrants, each with a master control processor and 64 slave processors. Tranquil addressed both levels. One could start and stop the individual processors in response to data and move data between them. However, programming in Tranquil was very hard!

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