Re: [Haskell-cafe] Guy Steele's Praise For Haskell @ Strange Loop Keynote

2011-01-16 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/15/11 18:15 , Warren Henning wrote: MATLAB, LabVIEW, Fortran, Java, C, and non-OO C++/random subsets of C++ rule scientific programming. Unit testing is rare and sporadic. In dragging scientists halfway to something new, the exotic, powerful

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Guy Steele's Praise For Haskell @ Strange Loop Keynote

2011-01-16 Thread caseyh
Quoting Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/15/11 18:15 , Warren Henning wrote: MATLAB, LabVIEW, Fortran, Java, C, and non-OO C++/random subsets of C++ rule scientific programming. Unit testing is rare and sporadic. In dragging

[Haskell-cafe] Guy Steele's Praise For Haskell @ Strange Loop Keynote

2011-01-15 Thread aditya siram
Guy Steele did the keynote on parallelism [1] at the Strange Loop [2] conference in which he said that he could do it over Fortress [3] would have been modeled on Haskell rather than Fortran. The relevant portions are between 49:36 - 49:50. Thought it might interest readers of this list. -deech

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Guy Steele's Praise For Haskell @ Strange Loop Keynote

2011-01-15 Thread Warren Henning
Pretty interesting links, thanks. Unfortunately, if Fortress is to have any chance of success with programmers, it will need to be straight-line and essentially have Algol-based syntax. MATLAB, LabVIEW, Fortran, Java, C, and non-OO C++/random subsets of C++ rule scientific programming. Unit

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Guy Steele's Praise For Haskell @ Strange Loop Keynote

2011-01-15 Thread Jake McArthur
So everybody doesn't have to go watch it, here is a shortened version of what Steele said in the video: Although Fortress is originally designed as an object-oriented framework in which to build an array-style scientific programming language, [...] as we've experimented with it and tried to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Guy Steele's Praise For Haskell @ Strange Loop Keynote

2011-01-15 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jake McArthur jake.mcart...@gmail.com wrote: So everybody doesn't have to go watch it, here is a shortened version of what Steele said in the video: Although Fortress is originally designed as an object-oriented framework in which to build an array-style

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Guy Steele's Praise For Haskell @ Strange Loop Keynote

2011-01-15 Thread C K Kashyap
Although Fortress is originally designed as an object-oriented framework in which to build an array-style scientific programming language, [...] as we've experimented with it and tried to get the parallelism going we found ourselves pushed more and more in the direction of using