Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Haskell a Keynesian language?
This is certainly proof that you can abuse economics in any context! ;) Or perhaps that economics can be used to abuse anything... - Johan Tibell On 10/12/06, Henning Thielemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is another approach of questionable classification of languages. :-) A lazy functional program is demand driven, an imperative program is supply driven. That is, if I request some information by calling a function in GHCi or Hugs, the interpreter develops a plan a how to produce the information I need and then executes the necessary steps. In contrast to that, an imperative program executes what's next on the schedule, whether it is need or not. So is Haskell a Keynesian language and C++ a Say language? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Haskell a Keynesian language?
Henning Thielemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is another approach of questionable classification of languages. :-) A lazy functional program is demand driven, an imperative program is supply driven. So is Haskell a Keynesian language and C++ a Say language? Great, now we can talk about the Invisible Hand performing evaluations... Alice: The Invisible Hand is holding up more memory than I thought. My program is using O(n) space just to compute length! Bob: You've violated Nash equilibrium! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Haskell a Keynesian language?
I prefer the terms awesome and crappy, respectively, but sure, whatever works for you ;-) Mike Henning Thielemann wrote: Here is another approach of questionable classification of languages. :-) A lazy functional program is demand driven, an imperative program is supply driven. That is, if I request some information by calling a function in GHCi or Hugs, the interpreter develops a plan a how to produce the information I need and then executes the necessary steps. In contrast to that, an imperative program executes what's next on the schedule, whether it is need or not. So is Haskell a Keynesian language and C++ a Say language? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Haskell a Keynesian language?
It often seems to me that the Wildeian dichotomy of charming vs. tedious applies especially well to programming languages. On Oct 12, 2006, at 5:02 PM, mvanier wrote: I prefer the terms awesome and crappy, respectively, but sure, whatever works for you ;-) Mike David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
