Re: [Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

On 10/07/07, Alex Queiroz wrote:

Hallo,

On 7/10/07, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

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I highly doubt that. For two reasons: 1. People can only cling to unproductive and clumsy tools for so long (we don't write much assembly any more...). Capitalism works to ensure this; people who are willing to switch to more efficient tools will put the rest out of business (if they really are more efficient).

As I replied to Hugh, the Universe of computers is not restricted to PCs. We, embedded developers, will be using C for a lot of time still.

That might eliminate the concurrency imperative (for a while!), but it doesn't adress the productivity point. My hypothesis is this: People don't like using unproductive tools, and if they don't have to, they won't. When "the next mainstream language" comes along to "solve" the concurrency problem (to some extent), it would seem highly likely that there will relatively soon be compilers for it for most embedded devices too, so why would you make your life miserable with C in that case (and cost your company X dollars due to inefficiency in the process)? -- Sebastian Sylvan +44(0)7857-300802 UIN: 44640862