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From: MigMit <miguelimo38@yandex.ru>
To: Robin Cockett <robin@ucalgary.ca>,
	 Bill Lawvere <wlawvere@buffalo.edu>,
	categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re:  Functions in programming
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:11:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1LkT3W-0001yz-LV@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)

> However, what emerges is something whose relation to standard
> mathematical settings is surprisingly remote.  Lazy evaluation (mixed
> with non-termination/partiality) is definitely partly to blame for this ...

Can you elaborate a bit?

> Of course, this really will not seem at all mysterious to a Haskell
> programmer who will mutter about strictness and bottoms.  But it may be
> a bit of a shock to a mathematician!

Hm-m-m, aren't Haskell (or, in fact, all) programmers just a special
sort of mathematicians?




             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-19 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-19 14:11 MigMit [this message]
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2009-03-21 16:06 Bill Lawvere
2009-03-20 21:18 Robin Cockett
2009-03-19 15:37 Peter Selinger
2009-03-19 15:37 Peter Selinger
2009-03-19 14:18 Peter Selinger
2009-03-19  2:32 Robin Cockett
2009-03-18 15:34 Bill Lawvere
2009-03-17 23:06 Robin Cockett
2009-03-17  5:17 Nathan Bloomfield
2009-03-16 15:12 Andrew Stacey
2009-03-16 11:37 Miles Gould
2009-03-16  9:27 Tom Hirschowitz
2009-03-16  5:52 Vaughan Pratt
2009-03-16  4:25 Daniel Schüssler
2009-03-15 23:55 Thorsten Altenkirch
2009-03-15 22:18 Robin Cockett
2009-03-14 19:52 Ellis D. Cooper
2009-03-14 17:39 Thorsten Altenkirch
2009-03-14 14:58 Steve Stevenson
2009-03-14 14:51 Miguel Mitrofanov
2009-03-14  9:51 Luis Barbosa
2009-03-14  6:02 Vaughan Pratt
2009-03-14  3:38 Fred E.J. Linton
2009-03-14  3:22 Michael Shulman
2009-03-14  2:21 Charles Wells
2009-03-13 11:29 Andrew Stacey

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