From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B68BBAF for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:59:40 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvcCAFPnrEjCpx6viGdsb2JhbACSHAEBAQ8goxKBZg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,245,1217800800"; d="scan'208";a="16165172" Received: from smtpka.univ-orleans.fr (HELO ka.univ-orleans.fr) ([194.167.30.175]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 21 Aug 2008 12:59:40 +0200 Received: from smtps.univ-orleans.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ka.univ-orleans.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3665A12AD4A; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:59:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.12] (ras75-4-82-235-58-110.fbx.proxad.net [82.235.58.110]) by smtps.univ-orleans.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC2136E60; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:59:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Haskell vs OCaml From: David Teller To: DooMeeR Cc: "caml-list@yquem.inria.fr" In-Reply-To: <48AD2BBD.7010702@doomeer.com> References: <48AC00EC.80503@soton.ac.uk> <48AD2BBD.7010702@doomeer.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:59:44 +0200 Message-Id: <1219316384.6941.10.camel@Blefuscu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; haskell:01 ocaml:01 univ-orleans:01 0200,:01 univ-orleans:01 lifo:01 anvil:98 hammer:98 liquidations:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 thesis:01 thu:05 distributed:05 fork:05 I'm not sure there's confluence if you factor in the resources required for such reduction, though. On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:47 +0200, DooMeeR wrote: > > What are the advantages/disadvantages when comparing a fork to a spoon? > > From Church's thesis, one can easily answer this question: they are > equivalent. > > The reduction is quite easy. A fork can be reduced to a spoon using a > fire, an anvil and a hammer, and a spoon can be reduced to a fork using > a saw. > > Hope this helps. > -- David Teller-Rajchenbach Security of Distributed Systems http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act brings liquidations.