On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net> wrote:

> I would like to see Haskell fill C's niche: it's close to C's
>> execution speed now, and pure functions and a terse style gives real
>> advantages in coding speed (higher-order functions abstract common
>> "patterns" without tedious framework implementations), maintainability
>> (typeclasses of parameters in utility functions means you don't write
>> different implementations of the same function for different types,
>> yet preserve type compatibility and checking), and reliability (pure
>> functions don't depend on state, so have fewer moving parts to go
>> wrong).
>>
>
> Do you know of any garbage collectors written in Haskell?  Do
> you know of any thread/process schedulers written in Haskell
> that can schedule arbitrary code (ie. not just code that is
> written in a continuation monad)?
>
> I would like to see a language that lets you write low level code
> (like memcpy) efficiently, in a style that makes reasoning about
> the code easy, and which doesnt require (but can coexist and support)
> garbage collection.
>
>
Hmmm, pre-scheme perhaps?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreScheme

It doesn't do garbage collection, and is meant for low level code, but
provides scheme's macros.  Scheme48 is written in it.


> "while(n--) *p++ = *q++;"
> is still quite elegant compared to many other expressive langauges.
> setjmp and longjmp are still quite powerful.
>
>  Jason Catena
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>
> Tim Newsham
> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
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