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2000-08-18 Thread Pretty9
i wonder if u coul write the following program for me. i couldn't get mine to work so i wanna check. my email address is   [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- As we know, SOCOG's effort at alloc

Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-18 Thread Tom Pledger
Florian Hars writes: > [...] Show me any working programmer who reads the "Improving > laziness"-part in the Hutton/Meijer paper on monadic parser > combinators and says "Oh! What an elegant language! And these nifty > efficiency improving no-ops like (fst (head x), snd (head x)): tail > x !"

Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-18 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Florian Hars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > To cite the comments of Olof Torgersson on Haskell > (www.cs.chalmers.se/pub/users/oloft/Papers/wm96/wm96.html): > >As a consequence the programmer loses control of what is really >going on and may need special tools like heap-profilers to find o

RE: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-18 Thread Doug Ransom
I do believe FP is current 90 degrees out of phase with OO.  I think the isue with tuples, lists, conses, etc. it the big problem.  I currently see no way for someone to write a clever matrix library in Haskell and have it seamlessly integrate into the NGWS framework (the new object type and

Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
> As another example, compare the propaganda version of quicksort in > Haskell with a more realistic tail recursive one. I remember thinking "wow!" when I first saw the Gentle Introduction version of quicksort, then "hang on...that's not quicksort!". Whatever happened to in-place update (one of t

Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-18 Thread Florian Hars
Doug Ransom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > none will miss spending a couple of weeks at the end of the > development cycle trying to find a memory leak. Apart from the fact that they are called space leaks, a lazy functional language will not help them with this problem. It may rather aggravate it

Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-18 Thread Andrei Errapart
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Craig Dickson wrote: [] > With such optimism about programmers, I'm astounded that you're writing from > a .com rather than a .edu address. :-) My experience in industry has led me > to quite different conclusions. Many C/C++ programmers seem not to recognize > pointer issues