On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 18:10 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> > especially interesting is a flash presentation
> >   http://subtextual.org/demo1.html
> 
> I saw this same flash presentation with the same examples years ago. 
> It's not really obvious it's any easier than the normal definition of 
> factorial or whatever. How would you handle database, 3D graphics, etc?
> 
> There's another language called "boxer" which also loses the source (so 
> to speak) and would seem to be better at functional programming, or at 
> least teaching that. You might be able to dig something up on that, if 
> you like these kinds of languages.
> 
> > I believe he's onto something big!
> 
> If he is, he's doing a poor job of actually producing something with it. 
> :-)  It doesn't seem to be that far different from QBE.
> 
> -- 
>    Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
>      I bet exercise equipment would be a lot more
>      expensive if we had evolved from starfish.

Beats me why one would want to obfuscate perfectly obvious abstract
concepts by unnecessarily specific examples, anyway. 

Christoph


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