[Haskell-cafe] Re: In-place modification

On 2007-07-10, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

On 10/07/07, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

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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)?

...because only C works on bizzare and unusual hardware?

By what magic is this the case? Hardware automatically supports C without the efforts of compiler-writers?

No, of course not. But the most popular architectures support C with /much smaller/ efforts of compiler writers. -- Aaron Denney -><-