From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>,
TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:54:54 -0400 [thread overview]
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 8:36 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
Amen to that. Me too, I tried functional languages and my head hurt. C
> seems so natural to me.
>
IMO impure functional languages like Common Lisp, ML, Scheme, and the
somewhat ironically named Pure language are straightforward extensions of
imperative programming: you can make your code less imperative without
being completely deprived of it. All of these are tail-recursive (formally
CL is not, but most implementations are) which means that recursive loops
become non-recursive gotos, and for/do-loops wind up being pure without you
noticing.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
If a traveler were informed that such a man [as Lord John Russell] was
leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the
Egyptians worshiped an insect. --Benjamin Disraeli
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-31 0:03 Kirk McKusick
2020-07-31 0:26 ` Royce Williams
2020-07-31 0:30 ` Dan Cross
2020-07-31 0:36 ` Rich Morin
2020-08-01 7:14 ` markus schnalke
2020-08-01 14:13 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-01 15:08 ` John P. Linderman
2020-08-01 16:43 ` Dan Cross
2020-08-01 17:21 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2020-08-01 17:34 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-08-01 17:48 ` John Cowan
2020-08-01 20:24 ` John Gilmore
2020-07-31 0:35 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-31 0:54 ` John Cowan [this message]
2020-07-31 12:56 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-01 16:44 [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's dissertation Doug McIlroy
2020-08-01 21:24 [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation Norman Wilson
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