... ssecorp wrote: What are you LISPers opinion of Haskell? Pros and cons compared to LISP? Haskell's success rate at generating widely...http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/haskells-virginity.html In summary, Jon's...fangled distributed tech in combination of Haskell was great. About 2 months ago...might be true that you really think OCaml is comparatively great in all...
...> Conclusion stands, I don't think so. Remember what you just said...any other open source OCaml or Haskell software package in the Debian/Unbuntu...popular projects written in OCaml than Haskell. Indeed, even excluding FFTW, open ... equally-plausible explanation is that Haskell is inherently incapable of solving ... in between. This (popularity of Haskell and OCAML) is completely off-...
... In particular, i don't think the conclusion you made, about ... undermines my confidence in using Haskell commercially but that is a...is slightly off. You phrased ?Haskell's popularity and track record...more used or popular than Haskell for serious projects. The data...is a pure guess: i think any validity of OCaml's...grounded in practicality and the Haskell community to be intolerably theoretical...
...flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/haskells-virginity.html (a report on ...aspect of OCaml and Haskell popularity. I think it is informative,...particular by many regulars, i think your posting behavior overall are...profile?enc_user=Cv3pMh0AAACHpIZ29S1AglWPUrDEZmMqdL-C5pPggpE8SFMrQg3Ptg ) I think many tech geekers on newsgroups...substantiate my original conclusion that Haskell is not yet a success...
xahlee@gmail.com wrote: Btw, Jon, you often attack Lisp, Haskell. However, i don't think i've ever seen you criticize OCaml. Despite my foray into other FPLs, OCaml has ... FPL communities would collaborate to build a common language run-time for OCaml, Lisp, Scheme, Haskell and so on but I cannot see that happening for social reasons. Without such ...
.... Physics and engineers don't care much about math, it's just a useful tool for their more pragmatic goals. Btw, Jon, you often attack Lisp, Haskell. However, i don't think i've ever seen you criticize OCaml. Oh, he does criticize OCaml at every oportunity there is to sell F#. :)
xahlee@gmail.com wrote: For example, many commercial use of languages are not public. As a example, Wolfram Research, the maker of Mathematica, sells more Mathematica than any lisp companies combined. This can be gathered from company size and financial records. However, if you go by your methods, such as polling stats from linux distros, or other means of checking stats among ...
On Aug 19, 9:57 pm, "xah...@gmail.com" <xah...@gmail.com> wrote: Xah Lee wrote: « “Distributed RCS, Darcs, and Math Sacrilege”http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/darcs.html » As of 2007-10, the “theory of patches” introduction section of darc's documentation that contains the “don't care for math” phrase is at “http://darcs.net/manual/node8.html#Patch”. As of 2008-...
Andrew Reilly wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:45:29 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: OCaml's uniform generic representation includes tagged 31- and 63-bit integers. F#'s unboxed representation is ~3x faster. I've wondered about this ever since you first mentioned it: given it's supposedly wonderful type inference, and its lack of scheme/lisp-like bignums, why doesn't OCaml use ...
