From: Eray Ozkural <examachine@gmail.com>
To: David Rajchenbach-Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr>
Cc: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>,
Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Purity and lazyness
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 22:22:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimdUwEkDdLQ10Ahg+qDskQtzqWfiknsP8oj6C=y@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41A45D6B-C556-4D60-BA6F-423B60E3A137@univ-orleans.fr>
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On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:38 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller <
David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr> wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I wouldn't classify Erlang as "pure": sending
> and receiving messages -- which are two of the most important primitives in
> Erlang -- are definitely side-effects.
> Also, asynchronous error-checking, Mnesia, etc. look quite impure to me.
>
> I also vaguely remember Simon Peyton-Jones declaring something along the
> lines of "The next Haskell will be strict".
>
>
There was a strict compiler for Haskell, whatever happened to it? Most times
I found it cumbersome to deal with the performance effects of default
laziness.
Best,
--
Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-philosophy
http://myspace.com/arizanesil http://myspace.com/malfunct
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-07 15:35 Dario Teixeira
2011-01-07 16:07 ` Damien Doligez
2011-01-07 16:38 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2011-01-07 18:16 ` Holger Weiß
2011-01-07 20:22 ` Eray Ozkural [this message]
2011-01-07 20:29 ` orbitz
2011-01-07 20:30 ` Joel Reymont
2011-01-07 20:33 ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-08 9:44 ` Jesper Louis Andersen
2011-01-07 17:21 ` Alain Frisch
2011-01-07 17:46 ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-01-07 18:11 ` Holger Weiß
2011-01-07 18:52 ` Brian Hurt
2011-01-07 19:32 ` Petter Urkedal
2011-01-07 20:25 ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-09 16:11 ` Jon Harrop
2011-01-10 6:27 ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-07 19:17 ` Florian Weimer
[not found] ` <AANLkTikxCSQ+0XkOmSVDb3EWq_2oQ0pac3bDgc7f7jq+@mail.gmail.com>
2011-01-07 20:52 ` bluestorm
2011-01-09 16:15 ` Jon Harrop
2011-01-08 0:26 ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2011-01-08 9:28 ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-01-08 22:47 ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-09 10:00 ` Petter Urkedal
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