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> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:29:36 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: kplug-list@kernel-panic.org
> Subject: Re: Any company ever publish software that mimics their CPUs
> *exactly*?
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:45:30PM -0500, Gabriel Sechan wrote:
>> Mathematicians. I'd be shocked if more than 2% of the programming population
> could stand Scheme. There's reasons why functional programming is dead in the
> real world.
>
> That's a very deep question I still don't have to answer to..... why Scheme
> and
> friends aren't more successful when they are unimaginably elegant.
>
Elegance is in the eye of the beholder. To me, and many others, its the exact
opposite of elegance- it's difficult to read, difficult to code in. It
follows a very mathematical way of thinking- but most people, including most
programmers, don't normally think in pure mathematics. Imperative and OO
models follow how the majority of programmers think better. Which is why
functional will never be more than a lab project.
Gabe
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