On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 09:06:14AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > And now let's start a flame war about weak vs. strong typing, and
> > a second one about lazy (non-strict) vs. strict evaluation.
>
> I'll play :-)
>
> C has the right semantics for operating system code.
Noone said that something like lisp or haskell would be good for
that task.
> The rest is magic.
For operating system code, yes. But for some stuff -- I mean
real-world stuff like web applications -- languages like haskell
or even lisp are probably more appropriate than C (and Haskell,
Lisp and C are more appropriate than Java or PHP).
Ciao,
Kili
