Sorry Bryan, there are a couple of comments I should make a final reply to - I'll ignore the rest.
> From: Richard O'Keefe <o...@cs.otago.ac.nz> > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:52 PM -snip- >> Says who? Is that on your own authority or some other source you can point >> us to? > > It looks increasingly as though there is no point in this discussion. > Is there ANY conceivable criticism of Java that will not elicit > ad hominem attacks from you? It isn't an ad hominem attack to ask you who's the authority that made some recommendation. -snip- >> Wait just a moment - you wrote "I didn't _think_ I'd omitted >> anything important" and now it turns out that the measurements were made >> using your personal Smalltalk implementation! >> >> You have got to be joking. > > Why? Because you omitted basic information about the measurements you presented. -snip- >> imo It would be better to "show how much better programs using other > data structures and algorithms perform those specific tasks" than brandish > anecdotes from a past century. > > "Past century"? Insults, is it? No, it's an echo of the words you used - "...insanely difficult in Fortran 77. This century's Fortran is of course another matter." _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
