Re: If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

2009-07-28 Thread Dimiter "malkia" Stanev
Xah Lee wrote: PHP is functional. PHP is functional, as in "it functions!". PHP is not functional, as in "it ain't functions!" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: multi-core software

2009-06-10 Thread Dimiter "malkia" Stanev
Jeff M. wrote: On Jun 9, 9:08 pm, Arved Sandstrom wrote: Jon Harrop wrote: Arved Sandstrom wrote: Jon, I do concurrent programming all the time, as do most of my peers. Way down on the list of why we do it is the reduction of latency. What is higher on the list? Correctness. IMO, that re

Re: multi-core software

2009-06-09 Thread Dimiter "malkia" Stanev
Erlang uses quite a bit of mutable state behind the scenes ... the programmers just don't see it. George Heh... "The CPUs use quite a bit of mutable state behind the scenes ... the programmers just don't see it." Actually with CPU they see it more, than... say Erlang (that's why you need to

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-04 Thread Dimiter "malkia" Stanev
You think the posts are bad... check out his web site... Just don't go to every page on the Xah website - some of his stuff is NSFW (Not Safe For Work). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what's so difficult about namespace?

2008-11-26 Thread Dimiter "malkia" Stanev
(pdf-display) Yes this would be safe everywhere, and granted such naming works well for functions, classes, global variables, etc - but really for METHODS, being a MESSAGE it makes it unattractive. Other than that, packages (namespaces) in Common-Lisp are also used for special cases: T

Re: Program inefficiency?

2007-09-30 Thread Dimiter "malkia" Stanev
miter "malkia" Stanev. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> the program works great except for one thing. It's significantly >> slower through the later files in the search then through the early >