On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Eduardo Costa wrote:
[About several promissing signs of usage of FP
for scientific applications].
Far from pouring cold water on anybody's enthusiasm
regarding the usage of FP to scientific problems
(I would really like to see Haskell fit for such tasks),
I just want to point out that there is often a long
way from claims to reality. I have seen enough magic
algorithms for voice processing, published in well
acclaimed scientific journals, which have never passed
any tests that I have undertaken on my, then sophisticated,
Masscomp development station, nor when implemented
as real-time algorithms in hardware. Wiener, or not
Wiener, LSM or not, this stuff is really computationally
intensive and just could not be run as claimed: fast,
in small space, producing clean voice output for a claimed baud
rate.
And all of this was either C or assembler based, so the
basic speed (relative to what was available 10 years back)
was not an isssue.
Please, let us avoid heresays and stick to well proven facts.
Where are the sources of the information you were talking about?
I could not find any single reference to a name Paschoarelli,
Soarez only matches with Alcimar Barbosa Soares (not two
persons as you seem to suggest) in context of the Clean discussion
list, Edimburg University somehow does not match with
mechanical arm, or arm of any sort, I could not find anything
related to prof. Malaquias'es publications (aside from his
correspondence to Clean list) etc., etc. Surely all those famous
people have already published at least something related to
the claims you mentioned?
Jan
