I'm not saying it's B.S., but it is remarkably out place. Beside the fact implying functional programming was unpopular, or dead, or forgotten since the 80s or the 60s or whatever is immensely asinine, given that a staggering amount of engineers and mathematicians out there dealing with tough as nails problems do so in functional style restricted or oriented languages every day. Saying that it's functional programming at the core of ICE and its qualities, or of Fabric for that matter, is irrelevant, and it felt like an incredibly artificial way to bring FE in the picture as some sort of rip-off manoeuvre.
Sure, it might have been how a brilliant intuition was presented, but why the mention of patents (lack thereof) and FE? Graphs are a classic discrete problem, the classic transposition from the math problem to relatively modern implementations one has been functional focused for... I don't know, 40 years? More? It makes as much sense as saying Bifrost is a FE rip-off because it revolves around compilation and relies on LLVM, and configures itself as an external platform feeding transparently into DCC cients. Is that a comfortable thought to entertain? Does it drive the discussion anywhere? No, neither, nor it should since finding such shaky ground as common to drive a point home (functional programming or LLVM+clang) is like implying Maya ripped off Max before being bought because it was ported to run on x86 CPUs. Sorry if this comes out strong, I'm not having a go at you at all Luc only replying for continuity, but as to why it's a somewhat strong mail: Honestly? I expect much better from vendors than this. If there are chips on shoulders I hope they get plastered in a hurry (because that's what some comments I occasionally read sound), because I spend, or affect people who pay my wage in spending, money on these products, I'd really rather know that mature individuals constitute the force driving them. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Raffaele Fragapane > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The functional programming throwback has officially pushed this > conversation > > into the twilight zone and right out the other end of it into some > > unexplored surreal territory. > > Thanks to all involved, it'll stay with me for the rest of my life and > make > > me giggle every time I'll think of it. > > This functional programming language and ICE diversion sounds like > b.s., but it is not. You can talk to Andre Foisy, or even Ronald if > he's around, and he can explain it. Personally these conversation > have a way of reminding me to stick to UI. ;) Andre is our resident > softimage scientist. > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
