But his only reference to Utah is http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/docs/daume02yaht.pdf
so he hasn't really seen the light yet. On May 1, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Neil Toronto wrote: > And how to do it in C++: > > gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_programming_in_C.php > > He's not saying anything PLT hasn't been saying for years. But he does say > some of them differently. And he's John FRIGGIN' Carmack: the guy behind the > first 3D games ever made, and a current game industry mover-and-shaker and > icon. He has a chance to reach people we can't. > > I copied some great quotes while I read this. Starting with the one I'm most > sad to agree with: > > "... it would be irresponsible to exhort everyone to abandon their C++ > compilers and start coding in Lisp, Haskell, or, to be blunt, any other > fringe language." > > It's for external reasons, like reliance on proprietary libraries and tool > chains, and certification requirements. > > This one should be framed somewhere, for the second sentence: > > "A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers > not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. In > a multithreaded environment, the lack of understanding and the resulting > problems are greatly amplified, almost to the point of panic if you are > paying attention." > > He explains Racket's pragmatic purity rather well: > > "It can be fun in a puzzly sort of way to try to push purity to great > lengths..." > > "There is a continuum of value in how pure a function is, and the value step > from almost-pure to completely-pure is smaller than that from spaghetti-state > to mostly-pure." > > Neil ⊥ > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
