From: Chris Campbell <cyberdanx@gmail.com>
To: padator@wanadoo.fr
Cc: Thomas Fischbacher <Thomas.Fischbacher@physik.uni-muenchen.de>,
Yaron Minsky <yminsky@cs.cornell.edu>,
caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ray tracer language comparison
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 17:00:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c22844d10510090900n5bdbc4y@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26802443.1128868695235.JavaMail.www@wwinf1535>
On 09/10/05, yoann padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> > > It seems like on the whole a more fitting riposte might have been to
> > > provide a version of the SBCL implementation that was 8x faster than
> > > Jon's, rather than to provide a crippled version of Jon's that was 8x
> > > slower. But to each his own, I suppose....
> >
> > What? You call that elegant use of higher order functions "crippled"?
> > What a Blasphemy. I am really, truly outraged.
>
> But on what side are you ?
It's obvious Thomas is joking.
> Looking at your signature you seems like a big fan of functionnal programming
> but you are sending opposite signals in your post.
> It is not clear to me what is your point. What do you want to demonstrate ?
Perhaps that the comparison is flawed like most language comparisons
of this type (there is no APL or J version for example ;) j/k ). The
problems have been outlined before and there's is no need to drag them
up again, so if you're interested there's always google groups.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-09 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-09 14:38 yoann padioleau
2005-10-09 16:00 ` Chris Campbell [this message]
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2005-10-03 23:18 Jon Harrop
2005-10-04 13:49 ` [Caml-list] " Thomas Fischbacher
2005-10-09 5:26 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-10-09 11:24 ` Yaron Minsky
2005-10-09 13:59 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-10-09 17:37 ` Florian Weimer
2005-10-09 18:07 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-10-09 14:58 ` Jon Harrop
2005-10-09 17:25 ` Thomas Fischbacher
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