On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > >> http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/archive/SweeneyHPG2009/TimHPG2009.pdf > >> > > on p. 43/44 i believe it is claimed that one > > cannot do CSP without pure functional > > programming. > > (p ⇒ q) ⇏ (¬p ⇒ ¬q) > > That's interesting because pure functional programming doesn't exist at all in the strictest sense on a computer. One MUST be able to cause side effects during computation or your CPU will just get hot... if even that. Dave