From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <32125c2033c0f63e5bb24548c7bc934f@hamnavoe.com> References: <5db2df69e768a7259b8a1e698abddd3f@coraid.com> <32125c2033c0f63e5bb24548c7bc934f@hamnavoe.com> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:27:20 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60909021127m7c22b518hf2255495dce5ee30@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd4d240ded0a704729c6a4e Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5f8e1c2c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd4d240ded0a704729c6a4e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 =E2=87=92 q) =E2=87=8F (=C2=ACp =E2=87=92 =C2=ACq) > > 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 --000e0cd4d240ded0a704729c6a4e Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Richard= Miller <9fans@h= amnavoe.com> wrote:
>> http://graphics.cs.will= iams.edu/archive/SweeneyHPG2009/TimHPG2009.pdf
>>
> on p. 43/44 i believe it is claimed that one
> cannot do CSP without pure functional
> programming.

(p =E2=87=92 q) =E2=87=8F (=C2=ACp =E2=87=92 =C2=ACq)


That's interesting because pure fu= nctional programming doesn't exist at all in the strictest sense on a c= omputer. =C2=A0One MUST be able to cause side effects during computation or= your CPU will just get hot... if even that.

Dave=C2=A0

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