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From: orbitz@ezabel.com
To: Eray Ozkural <examachine@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rajchenbach-Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr>,
	Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>,
	Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>,
	caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Purity and lazyness
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:29:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7B166A75-88A4-41BC-A26F-A2CC8B6E30FC@ezabel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimdUwEkDdLQ10Ahg+qDskQtzqWfiknsP8oj6C=y@mail.gmail.com>

I believe you are thinking of 'Timber'?


On Jan 7, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Eray Ozkural wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:38 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr 
> > wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I wouldn't classify Erlang as "pure":  
> sending and receiving messages -- which are two of the most  
> important primitives in Erlang -- are definitely side-effects.
> Also, asynchronous error-checking, Mnesia, etc. look quite impure to  
> me.
>
> I also vaguely remember Simon Peyton-Jones declaring something along  
> the lines of "The next Haskell will be strict".
>
>
> There was a strict compiler for Haskell, whatever happened to it?  
> Most times I found it cumbersome to deal with the performance  
> effects of default laziness.
>
> Best,
>
> -- 
> Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate.  Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University,  
> Ankara
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-philosophy
> http://myspace.com/arizanesil http://myspace.com/malfunct
>


  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-07 15:35 Dario Teixeira
2011-01-07 16:07 ` Damien Doligez
2011-01-07 16:38   ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2011-01-07 18:16     ` Holger Weiß
2011-01-07 20:22     ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-07 20:29       ` orbitz [this message]
2011-01-07 20:30         ` Joel Reymont
2011-01-07 20:33         ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-08  9:44     ` Jesper Louis Andersen
2011-01-07 17:21 ` Alain Frisch
2011-01-07 17:46   ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-01-07 18:11 ` Holger Weiß
2011-01-07 18:52   ` Brian Hurt
2011-01-07 19:32     ` Petter Urkedal
2011-01-07 20:25     ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-09 16:11     ` Jon Harrop
2011-01-10  6:27       ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-07 19:17 ` Florian Weimer
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTikxCSQ+0XkOmSVDb3EWq_2oQ0pac3bDgc7f7jq+@mail.gmail.com>
2011-01-07 20:52     ` bluestorm
2011-01-09 16:15       ` Jon Harrop
2011-01-08  0:26   ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2011-01-08  9:28     ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-01-08 22:47     ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-09 10:00       ` Petter Urkedal

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