From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] C++ compiler anyone? From: David Gordon Hogan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010801181613.27B5D19A4C@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:16:04 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d86aa4e6-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > ps: i'd like to know how do 9fans feel towards LITHP or Haskell and the like > 'functional' stuff... I'm quite interested in it, and its cousin, logic programming. (I have an implementation of Prolog written in limbo...). It's something I definately want to explore further, but I'm busy with other things right now. I don't like LISP, due to its lack of syntax and the fact that it's not a pure functional language (ie functions can have side effects). I think that greater gains can be achieved by insisting on referential transparency, and using techniques like monads to characterize state, IO, exceptions etc., a la Haskell.