Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: In-place modification

2007-07-11 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On 11/07/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all. Quoting Sebastian Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Depends on your definition of widely used. There are more digital watches, freebie four-function calculators, irritating-music-playing doorbells and furby-like toys pumped out every

[Haskell-cafe] Re: In-place modification

2007-07-10 Thread Aaron Denney
On 2007-07-10, Sebastian Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/07/07, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Sylvan wrote: On 10/07/07, Alex Queiroz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you think we use C because we like it? :-) When this revolutionary tool of yours arrive that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: In-place modification

2007-07-10 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On 10/07/07, Aaron Denney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-07-10, Sebastian Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/07/07, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Sylvan wrote: On 10/07/07, Alex Queiroz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you think we use C because we like it? :-) When

[Haskell-cafe] Re: In-place modification

2007-07-10 Thread Aaron Denney
On 2007-07-10, Sebastian Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/07/07, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Sylvan wrote: That might eliminate the concurrency imperative (for a while!), but it doesn't adress the productivity point. My hypothesis is this: People don't like using

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: In-place modification

2007-07-10 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On 10/07/07, Aaron Denney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-07-10, Sebastian Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/07/07, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Sylvan wrote: That might eliminate the concurrency imperative (for a while!), but it doesn't adress the productivity

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: In-place modification

2007-07-10 Thread Creighton Hogg
On 7/10/07, Aaron Denney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-07-10, Sebastian Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/07/07, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Sylvan wrote: That might eliminate the concurrency imperative (for a while!), but it doesn't adress the productivity

[Haskell-cafe] Re: In-place modification

2007-07-10 Thread Aaron Denney
On 2007-07-10, Creighton Hogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, of course not. But the most popular architectures support C with /much smaller/ efforts of compiler writers. Now is this just because of the relative simplicity of C, because of a larger amount of collective experience in writing C

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: In-place modification

2007-07-10 Thread ajb
G'day all. Quoting Sebastian Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Depends on your definition of widely used. There are more digital watches, freebie four-function calculators, irritating-music-playing doorbells and furby-like toys pumped out every year than there are PCs, servers, routers and mainframes.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: In-place modification

2007-07-10 Thread Aaron Denney
On 2007-07-11, ok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for me, I still sometimes write Fortran. (Mind you, F95 is not your grandfather's Fortran. But it does still beat the pants off C.) People have been predicting the death of Fortran for a long time. I don't know what the programming language of