From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id d1b37a27 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 20:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 1084D9CB7D; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:10:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E85A9CB78; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:10:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0F0DF9CB78; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:10:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail.bitblocks.com (ns1.bitblocks.com [173.228.5.8]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04EB93D74 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:10:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: from bitblocks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bitblocks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C323156E413 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:10:00 -0800 (PST) To: TUHS main list In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:48:58 -0800." <0FB634BD-F939-425B-AD22-90291268990C@cfcl.com> References: <202002180017.01I0HI0I1415945@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <20200219044444.GO30841@mcvoy.com> <615399517.295857.1582135972871@email.ionos.co.uk> <202002200727.01K7RFwj014313@freefriends.org> <20200220162308.GK30841@mcvoy.com> <20200220172457.80063156E411@mail.bitblocks.com> <0FB634BD-F939-425B-AD22-90291268990C@cfcl.com> Comments: In-reply-to Rich Morin message dated "Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:48:58 -0800." From: Bakul Shah MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <15043.1582229400.1@bitblocks.com> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:10:00 -0800 Message-Id: <20200220201007.6C323156E413@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [TUHS] man Macro Package and pdfmark X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:48:58 -0800 Rich Morin wrote: > FWIW, I've been enjoying Elixir a lot for the past few years. It's an > Actor-based, dynamically typed, FP language that runs on the Erlang VM. > It has Rubyish syntax, pattern matching, syntactic macros, lightweight > processes, a message-passing framework, supervision trees, and other > cool stuff. I haven't gotten around to playing with Elixir yet.... Nit: I thought Erlang designers weren't aware of Hewitt's Actor model before they designed the language; it just happened to map to the Actor model very well. > I will note, however, that Elixir programming tends to be rather > different from the stuff I've been doing for the past 50 years. For > example, processing pipelines tend to replace sets of nested loops... No Stinking Loops! I am familiar with that from the perspective of array programming languages. Arrays and streams have quite a bit in common. [At times I have wanted a more powerful APL like shell, where things like wc, grep, sort, group, join etc. are builtins.]