> Can I respectfully suggest that comp.lang.functional would be
> a better place to have this discussion than the Haskell mailing list?
Good idea, but before everyone tunes out, and to return to the original
thread, here's another good advert for Haskell (and other FPL's) from
the games world:
h
Hello!
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 07:08:31PM -0500, Christopher Milton wrote:
> [...]
> pattern matching a great deal. But my Perl friends balk
> at the apparent lack of semicolons in Haskell. :-)
Where is there a lack of semicolons? :-) You can even have braces.
f x = let { foo = bar; bar = baz
| > > >> Look at the popularity of PERL
| > > >> for example. That is one thing I will never understand.
| > > I'm sure I will get flamed to a crisp for this, but...
| > > I think PERL can be quite nice when you want a quick
| > > hack that will do something useful.
|
| Yes, Perl is a great pro
On 00.01.27 15:33, D. Tweed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed:
> [Hopefully not off-topic wrt Haskell]
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> Look at the popularity of PERL
> > >> for example. That is one thing I will never understand.
> > I'm sure I will get flamed to a crisp for this,
[about why anybody would ever use perl]
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Tommy Thorn wrote:
> "D. Tweed" wrote:
>
> > Another reason for the popularity of Perl is that it's _popular_ &
> > _ubiquitous_.
Indeed, popularity does beget further popularity until the point of
ubiquity. But I think that misse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> Look at the popularity of PERL
> >> for example. That is one thing I will never understand.
Oh I think I do. See C, see C++. You're the wizzard of all OSes if you
can speak that languages fluently. You get the feeling of beeing
allmight (till the next memory lea
"D. Tweed" wrote:
> Another reason for the popularity of Perl is that it's _popular_ &
> _ubiquitous_. Although I like Haskell and some other languages (e.g.,
> Mathematica, python, even C++) more than Perl, when I want to produce
> something that I hope other people in my lab will use/contribute
[Hopefully not off-topic wrt Haskell]
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Look at the popularity of PERL
> >> for example. That is one thing I will never understand.
> I'm sure I will get flamed to a crisp for this, but...
> I think PERL can be quite nice when you want a quick hac
>> Look at the popularity of PERL
>> for example. That is one thing I will never understand.
I'm sure I will get flamed to a crisp for this, but...
I think PERL can be quite nice when you want a quick hack that will do
something useful.
I'm not saying it is maintainable.
I'm not saying it shoul
What amused me the most is thumbing through the responses to the article.
There are so many charlatans on the topics of information technology and
especially programming. At least Tim Sweeny has honest-to-god knowledge
and experience of the subject, though unfortunately short-sighted he may be.
My bet is the "Transition Between Languages" part.
At the very beginning of his article, he dismisses
functional languages as "interesting research
topics, but we're sticking to languages with ample
applicability to shipping applications and games."
In the "transition" section" he states, "Most
Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>
> Take a look at what a hard core game programmer thinks about the
> evolution of programming languages. Unreal is a very sucessful
> game so maybe people listen to him...
>
> http://www.gamespy.com/articles/devweek_b.shtm
>
> You need to read until about page 5 to
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