Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-11-23 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
Keith H Duggar wrote: > It is a common refuge of those who cannot support their position with > fact and logic. On more than one occasion Jon Harrop has all but > crushed Ertugrul in this very forum with /source code/; that is as > objective as it gets. Since Jon has financial reasons to invest

Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-11-21 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
"Jon Harrop" wrote: > "Ertugrul Söylemez" wrote in message > news:20101014052650.510e8...@tritium.streitmacht.eu... > > > That's nonsense. > > Actually namekuseijin is right. You really need to persevere and > familiarize yourself with some of

Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-10-15 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
namekuseijin wrote: > On 14 out, 00:26, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote: > > BTW, you mentioned symbols ('$', '.' and '>>='), which are not > > syntactic sugar at all.  They are just normal functions, for which > > it makes sense to be infi

Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-10-13 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
namekuseijin wrote: > On 13 out, 21:01, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote: > > What exactly is "friggin' huge" and "complex" about Haskell, and > > what's this stuff about a "very own monolithic gcc"?  Haskell isn't > > a lot more comple

Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-10-13 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
namekuseijin wrote: > Take haskell and its so friggin' huge and complex that its got its > very own scary monolithic gcc. When you think of it, Scheme is the > one true high-level language with many quality perfomant backends -- > CL has a few scary compilers for native code, but not one to java

Re: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms

2010-09-26 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
Ertugrul Söylemez wrote: > In Haskell the solution looks like this: > > [...] And before anyone starts to rant, I didn't pay attention to where I'm X-posting this stuff. Sorry for that. But on the other hand you could say that I'm giving the Perl people (apparently the

Re: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms

2010-09-26 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
Xah Lee wrote: > here's a interesting toy list processing problem. > > I have a list of lists, where each sublist is labelled by a number. I > need to collect together the contents of all sublists sharing the same > label. So if I have the list > > ((0 a b) (1 c d) (2 e f) (3 g h) (1 i j) (2 k l)

Experiment: Church lists in Python

2009-01-16 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
Hello there Pythoners, It was almost a week ago, when I got bored and thought, Python is quite a boring language, so I'd need to do some evil functional programming again. I thought, I'd share the result. ;) This time, I added a Church style representation for lists [1] to Python. The problem t