
7 Dec
2005
7 Dec
'05
3:19 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 07:47:46PM +0000, Robin Green wrote:
Some day you may thank for this verbosity, because it encourages you do program in a purely functional way making your program more friendly for SMP execution.
You are mistaken. The verbosity is necessary if you want "visual" referential transparency, but not necessary if you only want pure functional programming. Only the latter is helpful for optimisability. I am hoping to write a paper on this topic.
I am afraid I don't understand. PS. "I am after two hot beers" warning :-) Best regards Tomasz -- I am searching for a programmer who is good at least in some of [Haskell, ML, C++, Linux, FreeBSD, math] for work in Warsaw, Poland