Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-18 Thread Chris Double
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote: > Since there's no functional programming language with the three > features that you mentioned, it looks to me like you'll have to go > with C or C++. There are a few functional programming languages that match those three features. Obviously R

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-18 Thread Ms2ger
On 08/18/2012 12:08 AM, Gavin Sharp wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Justin Dolske wrote: I'm talking about the problem of having a large set of tests with a small percentage that fail intermittently, which is what we have today in m-c. What percentage of the intermittently-failing tes

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-18 Thread james
On Friday, 17 August 2012 23:38:22 UTC+2, Justin Dolske wrote: > I'm talking about the problem of having a large set of tests with a > small percentage that fail intermittently, which is what we have today > in m-c. Even if they all magically became cross-browser compatible right > now, I thin

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-18 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
On 8/18/12 9:41 AM, Chris Double wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote: >> Since there's no functional programming language with the three >> features that you mentioned, it looks to me like you'll have to go >> with C or C++. > > There are a few functional programming langu