Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Monads in Scala, XSLT, Unix shell pipes was Re: Monads in ...

2005-11-28 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
On Nov 27, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Bill Wood wrote: (I'm going to do a lazy permute on your stream of consciousness; hope it terminates :-). I think the Rubicon here is the step from one to many -- one function/procedure to many, one thread to many, one processor to many, ... . Our favorite pure

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Monads in Scala, XSLT, Unix shell pipes was Re: Monads in ...

2005-11-27 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Greg, Saturday, November 26, 2005, 8:25:38 PM, you wrote: GW Maybe this is a different topic, but exploring concurrency in Haskell GW is definitely on my to do list, but this is really a bit of a puzzle. GW One thing I've been thinking lately is that in functional programming GW the

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Monads in Scala, XSLT, Unix shell pipes was Re: Monads in ...

2005-11-27 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello jerzy, Sunday, November 27, 2005, 3:49:07 PM, you wrote: for pure functional computations concurrency is just one of IMPLEMENTATION mechanisms, and it doesn't appear in abstractions DEFINITIONS jkiuf Well, there are formal aspects of the specification of concurrency as well. jkiuf Do

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Monads in Scala, XSLT, Unix shell pipes was Re: Monads in ...

2005-11-27 Thread Greg Woodhouse
--- Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Greg, for pure functional computations concurrency is just one of IMPLEMENTATION mechanisms, and it doesn't appear in abstractions DEFINITIONS I suppose it depends a bit on the question you're asking. A multiprocessor, considered as a

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Monads in Scala, XSLT, Unix shell pipes was Re: Monads in ...

2005-11-27 Thread Bill Wood
(I'm going to do a lazy permute on your stream of consciousness; hope it terminates :-). I think the Rubicon here is the step from one to many -- one function/procedure to many, one thread to many, one processor to many, ... . Our favorite pure functions are like the Hoare triples and Dijkstra