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| Started by | Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> |
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| First post | 2011-03-30 02:29 -0500 |
| Last post | 2011-04-14 05:01 -0500 |
| Articles | 12 on this page of 92 — 19 participants |
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[OT] functional paradigm taking over Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-03-30 02:29 -0500
Lambda Shambda Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> - 2011-03-30 04:38 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-03-30 10:19 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> - 2011-03-30 12:27 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-03-30 20:49 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-03-30 22:30 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> - 2011-03-31 05:08 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-02 15:07 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> - 2011-04-03 00:29 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-03 02:48 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-03 12:58 +0200
Re: Lambda Shambda Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-03 06:50 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 13:59 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-03 15:06 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 15:56 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Everett L Williams II <rett@classicnet.net> - 2011-04-03 07:17 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-03 07:47 -0500
Why should I be a programmer, to program? Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> - 2011-04-03 13:44 -0500
Re: Why should I be a programmer, to program? Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-03 14:45 -0500
Re: Why should I be a programmer, to program? Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-03 15:58 -0500
Re: Why should I be a programmer, to program? Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 15:21 -0500
Re: Why should I be a programmer, to program? serialhex <serialhex@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 15:34 -0500
Re: Why should I be a programmer, to program? - OT Chris <chris@s-4-u.net> - 2011-04-03 15:53 -0500
Re: Why should I be a programmer, to program? Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 16:01 -0500
Re: Why should I be a programmer, to program? - OT Chris <chris@s-4-u.net> - 2011-04-03 16:42 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Everett L Williams II <rett@classicnet.net> - 2011-04-04 04:23 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-04 04:52 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-04 06:19 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 08:13 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-04 00:55 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-04 10:16 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Iain Barnett <iainspeed@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 15:50 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-03 15:07 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-03 06:05 -0500
Re: Lambda Shambda Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-03-31 13:56 -0500
Re: [OT] functional paradigm taking over Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> - 2011-03-30 15:46 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> - 2011-04-04 04:05 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-04 04:21 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-04 04:25 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Stu <stu@rubyprogrammer.net> - 2011-04-04 04:28 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 06:49 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-04 05:00 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-04 05:15 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-04 05:18 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Everett L Williams II <rett@classicnet.net> - 2011-04-04 06:31 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-04 07:17 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-04 07:29 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-04 10:42 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> - 2011-04-04 12:43 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> - 2011-04-10 11:59 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-12 01:18 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-12 01:22 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-12 02:09 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-12 02:11 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-12 02:47 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-12 03:40 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 00:53 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 01:02 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 01:38 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 01:46 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 02:46 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-13 03:52 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 09:59 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-13 10:16 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 11:18 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over serialhex <serialhex@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 14:41 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 15:34 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-13 10:17 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 18:44 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 00:32 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> - 2011-04-14 05:06 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> - 2011-04-15 01:25 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 07:41 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> - 2011-04-04 07:56 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Stu <stu@rubyprogrammer.net> - 2011-04-05 03:58 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-05 04:12 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Stu <stu@rubyprogrammer.net> - 2011-04-05 16:57 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Everett L Williams II <rett@classicnet.net> - 2011-04-07 10:51 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 18:42 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Alex Stahl <astahl@hi5.com> - 2011-04-07 20:26 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> - 2011-04-07 22:14 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> - 2011-04-08 06:10 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Everett L Williams II <rett@classicnet.net> - 2011-04-08 13:58 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> - 2011-04-08 16:04 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-08 19:12 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> - 2011-04-12 07:31 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-12 11:22 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Gregory Vella <gregory_vella@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-13 14:49 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 15:59 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> - 2011-04-14 02:28 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-14 03:29 -0500
Re: functional paradigm taking over Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 05:01 -0500
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| From | Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> |
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| Date | 2011-04-07 22:14 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <5f74a408c138a2844937ecc0213fd8ad@ruby-forum.com> |
| In reply to | #2470 |
Chad Perrin wrote > > you found a 4GL very useful within its narrow domain of > intended applicability Chad , you have a rather prejudiced view of languages that don't look like what you're used to. For a few decades of my career, 4GLs paid the mortgage for me. I did a North Sea Oil system in ADS/On-line. Focus (with a touch of Rexx) ran the second biggest direct insurer in the UK for a while. It was the most efficient and fast-moving corporate IT department I've ever worked in. Focus provided ETL and data warehousing for the biggest card aquirer in the UK - hundreds of million of transactions per month. It managed loans of hundreds of millions to the biggest corporations in the World. What have your precious 'proper' programming languages done? I cut my teeth in IT before the advent of the Object-oriented Era. Everyone was excited when OO arrived. However what I often see from people taught OO from the cradle is a kind of religiousity, arrogance, intolerance - this is is the only true path to righteousness; every thing else should be burned. It's not really as black and white as that. You need to live-and-let-live. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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| From | Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com> |
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| Date | 2011-04-08 06:10 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <20110408121049.17fabd0f@fractal> |
| In reply to | #2498 |
Your argument stinks. You're saying that Excel is a programming language, because *you* made money using similar tools. My sister is a dentist. She makes lots of money. Therefore, by your logic, dental surgery constitutes a programming language. WTF?! Just because your particular career didn't involve much proper programming doesn't change the fact that teeth aren't algorithms, Excel is a spreadsheet application, that many careers actually do! I think the guys who wrote Excel program for a living too. It's as if you're trying to convince people on this list that they would be better giving up their jobs, giving up their study and going to work in an insurance broking making excel spreadsheets. Well thanks for the offer of employment advice, but it's not what I want to do. Thanks Johnny
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| From | Everett L Williams II <rett@classicnet.net> |
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| Date | 2011-04-08 13:58 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <4D9F5AD2.9030809@classicnet.net> |
| In reply to | #2498 |
[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] *Mike, As attractive a tool as Ruby is, with the attitudes being evince here, I think that I will take my playtoys elsewhere. Ruby has some of the best features of a whole group of current languages, but it is not well standardized and it does not offer the level of leverage offered by even the fairly mediocre 4GL's. Ruby is just a free version of some things that would otherwise cost money, and it has not even achieved the level of acceptance of some of the other free tools. Unfortunately, the best of languages that I have seen out there are commercial and almost or completely proprietary. That would be Eiffel and MainSAIL. Both are far more powerful than Ruby, and both offer better diagnostic facilities as well as a far tighter development cycle. I think that until I have some project that just cries out for some facility only available in Ruby (and I cannot imagine what that might be), I will drop out of this forum. You might consider just how important Ruby is to you with this set of attitudes being displayed. Everett L.(Rett) Williams II * Mike Stephens wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote > >> you found a 4GL very useful within its narrow domain of >> intended applicability >> > Chad , you have a rather prejudiced view of languages that don't look > like what you're used to. > > For a few decades of my career, 4GLs paid the mortgage for me. I did a > North Sea Oil system in ADS/On-line. Focus (with a touch of Rexx) ran > the second biggest direct insurer in the UK for a while. It was the most > efficient and fast-moving corporate IT department I've ever worked in. > Focus provided ETL and data warehousing for the biggest card aquirer in > the UK - hundreds of million of transactions per month. It managed loans > of hundreds of millions to the biggest corporations in the World. What > have your precious 'proper' programming languages done? > > I cut my teeth in IT before the advent of the Object-oriented Era. > Everyone was excited when OO arrived. However what I often see from > people taught OO from the cradle is a kind of religiousity, arrogance, > intolerance - this is is the only true path to righteousness; every > thing else should be burned. It's not really as black and white as that. > You need to live-and-let-live. > >
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| From | Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> |
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| Date | 2011-04-08 16:04 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <2a8c0e7a355f6fe336bc79ccd273ab36@ruby-forum.com> |
| In reply to | #1942 |
Everett Generally speaking it's a calm, friendly, rational community, so don't leave Ruby behind just because of tbis thread. I've just learnt that with strangers - don't get into discussions about sex, religion, politics or programming languages :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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| From | Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2011-04-08 19:12 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <BANLkTikWUMyDKmBNkVq0gWSinEKmExLKsQ@mail.gmail.com> |
| In reply to | #2557 |
[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> wrote: > I've just learnt that with strangers - don't get into discussions about > sex, religion, politics or programming languages :) > > Or spreadsheets ;)~
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| From | Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> |
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| Date | 2011-04-12 07:31 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <e2bed8f1e8f57674181d25f625791320@ruby-forum.com> |
| In reply to | #1942 |
What we've seen here is some people - but not all - have a fixed frame of reference about what qualifies as a language. If you are religious the terms 'good' and 'evil' have a very clear and self-evident meaning. If you are an atheist they seem to be two sets of rather similar things that appear to be rather arbitrary. The Christian Old Testament said 'evil' was marrying people from other ethnic groups, whereas killing them and their animals was 'good'. The Christian New Testament changed those set memberships a bit. Ruby is a very powerful language that also has the merit of being able to express complexity in an elegant way. However if you don't particularly need all that power then you shouldn't write off languages which do some things easily but become contorted when you try and replicate complex Ruby capabilities. 'Domain Specific Language' is a perjorative term. It's just saying I can't conveniently do certain things I'm used to doing in the way I prefer. To say that matters, you need to show that typical domains definitely require such capabilities. My point earlier was not that I was a superior being (I don't know where that came from) but that from my experience in the oil, banking, insurance, corflakes and fragances business, most programming is using quite basic features. OK, that might not extend to nuclear fission reactors, but let's keep a sense of proportion here. There certainly is an argument that functional languages are more easily mapped to multi-core computers. If I buy one of those S-word platforms, I get sophisticated parallel processing built in for free. For Ruby, I would have to carefully program that as Ruby has no general purpose model/vocabulary/semantics for conveying or deducing dependancies. Or has it? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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| From | Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> |
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| Date | 2011-04-12 11:22 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <BANLkTikDuTv+eX5pcyTcSO_a7pGH9a_+xw@mail.gmail.com> |
| In reply to | #2677 |
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote: > >> 'Domain Specific Language' is a perjorative term. > > No -- it's a descriptive term. A pejorative term would be something like > "blub language". The term "domain specific language" describes a > narrower focus, which makes it more suitable to certain tasks than a > domain nonspecific language, and less suitable to other tasks. > > You act as though "domain specific" is a synonym for "crippled", but > that's not the case at all. To elaborate: I'm a heavy user of TADS 3 these days, which stands for "Text Adventure Development System". It has a heavily C influenced syntax, is Turing complete, and is compiled into bytecode, but I wouldn't dream of using it to script regular tasks with it, or write a spreadsheet in it. It's standard library is heavily geared towards text adventures (what a surprise), and has next to no functions to call up files, since the IF interpreter takes care of loading and saving game state. It has syntax features and objects that make writing interactive fiction a breeze, however. For example: aRoom: Room 'room noun' 'room name' "This is a room. " ; +desk: Table 'table noun' 'table name' "A table with four legs. " ; ++paper: Readable, Thing 'readable noun' 'readable name' "A piece of paper. " readDesc = "You read what's written on the piece of paper. " ; Each plus is an instance of "object nesting": The piece of paper is on a table, in a room, and the player can react to the things in the room by using <verb> <noun> constructs. If I were to use Ruby for this (and I could), I'd still be writing a text parser, instead of doing what I want to do. TL;DR: DSLs remove a lot of yak shaving for a given task, but introduce a lot of it when moving outside of the DSL's domain. It's jargon vs general language: Makes communicating certain ideas easier to those in the know, than using a general purpose language. -- Phillip Gawlowski Though the folk I have met, (Ah, how soon!) they forget When I've moved on to some other place, There may be one or two, When I've played and passed through, Who'll remember my song or my face.
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| From | Gregory Vella <gregory_vella@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2011-04-13 14:49 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <c916c0ee72af2003677f00fe01bffa41@ruby-forum.com> |
| In reply to | #1942 |
Phillip makes the assertion that Excel is not Turing-complete, beginning the flame war: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/27cebe32ec304c83 Anyone with a passing knowledge of the field would know that Excel is Turing-complete because it can model Turing-complete cellular automata (for instance the Game of Life). Also see Wolfram's NKS (though Wolfram has become crank-like in other respects, he certainly knows CA). History shows that Phillip will persist despite being factually disputed. No doubt he will attempt to twist his way out of this one. See him get refuted here: http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/msg/abb343631960cdad Note his bizarre cockiness despite being totally wrong: http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/msg/da8cbb09529977d1 In order to understand who you're dealing with here, read Philip's messages in that thread regarding IEEE infinity. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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| From | Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2011-04-13 15:59 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <BANLkTi=MJnF9EjcxL=bz-L3kNUQrvELonw@mail.gmail.com> |
| In reply to | #2782 |
[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] Thank you for that. I personally find language construction interesting. It's a shame that people are just plugging their ears in this particular topic. Though I think part of the problem is this topic is that some people seem to think that a program is not a system. The problem with that idea is what do you say when you start talking about languages built expressly for designing what we are used to calling programming languages. Is the thing output by an Antlr grammar spec a single unit that is not expressive, or is it a system that is expressive? If one considers all programs systems that express a subset of human thoughts the definitions of what these things are remains consistent even at the level of language design. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Gregory Vella <gregory_vella@yahoo.com>wrote: > Phillip makes the assertion that Excel is not Turing-complete, > beginning the flame war: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/27cebe32ec304c83 > > Anyone with a passing knowledge of the field would know that Excel is > Turing-complete because it can model Turing-complete cellular automata > (for instance the Game of Life). Also see Wolfram's NKS (though > Wolfram has become crank-like in other respects, he certainly knows CA). > > History shows that Phillip will persist despite being factually > disputed. No doubt he will attempt to twist his way out of this one. > See him get refuted here: > http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/msg/abb343631960cdad > > Note his bizarre cockiness despite being totally wrong: > http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/msg/da8cbb09529977d1 > > In order to understand who you're dealing with here, read Philip's > messages in that thread regarding IEEE infinity. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > >
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| From | Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> |
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| Date | 2011-04-14 02:28 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <da01030d90eae892aee1373c6781b9ef@ruby-forum.com> |
| In reply to | #1942 |
Longest post for at least a year. It would appear people are comfortable with discussing details but once you stray into challenging their worldviews, you see quite different behaviour patterns. A reminder of why we have to have our bags searched at the airport. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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| From | Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> |
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| Date | 2011-04-14 03:29 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <BANLkTinVVeB0vN+3Ca1iEJdo8uE2C5oRXA@mail.gmail.com> |
| In reply to | #2829 |
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> wrote: > Longest post for at least a year. > > It would appear people are comfortable with discussing details but once > you stray into challenging their worldviews, you see quite different > behaviour patterns. > > A reminder of why we have to have our bags searched at the airport. Nicely put. As the originator of this thread I am sorry where all this went. My intent was to hear how other people view the tendency to include functional features in other programming languages or create hybrids from the start. Or hear whether they disagree that such a tendency exists. Unfortunately I am myself guilty of following that "Excel is (not) a (functional) language" branch of the discussion that you lured us into. :-) That is an interesting topic in itself but not what I had in mind originally. If there's still anybody out there who wishes to comment along the original line of thought, please let's hear it. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/
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| From | Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2011-04-14 05:01 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: functional paradigm taking over |
| Message-ID | <BANLkTinV0YjkHJrq_fckODGguudeygqY2g@mail.gmail.com> |
| In reply to | #2832 |
[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> wrote: > > Longest post for at least a year. > > > > It would appear people are comfortable with discussing details but once > > you stray into challenging their worldviews, you see quite different > > behaviour patterns. > > > > A reminder of why we have to have our bags searched at the airport. > > Nicely put. > > IDK, likening your adversaries to terrorists seems a bit extreme to me.
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