On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Tim Newsham <news...@lava.net> wrote:
> I would like to see Haskell fill C's niche: it's close to C's >> execution speed now, and pure functions and a terse style gives real >> advantages in coding speed (higher-order functions abstract common >> "patterns" without tedious framework implementations), maintainability >> (typeclasses of parameters in utility functions means you don't write >> different implementations of the same function for different types, >> yet preserve type compatibility and checking), and reliability (pure >> functions don't depend on state, so have fewer moving parts to go >> wrong). >> > > Do you know of any garbage collectors written in Haskell? Do > you know of any thread/process schedulers written in Haskell > that can schedule arbitrary code (ie. not just code that is > written in a continuation monad)? > > I would like to see a language that lets you write low level code > (like memcpy) efficiently, in a style that makes reasoning about > the code easy, and which doesnt require (but can coexist and support) > garbage collection. > > Hmmm, pre-scheme perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreScheme It doesn't do garbage collection, and is meant for low level code, but provides scheme's macros. Scheme48 is written in it. > "while(n--) *p++ = *q++;" > is still quite elegant compared to many other expressive langauges. > setjmp and longjmp are still quite powerful. > > Jason Catena >> > > Tim Newsham > http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ > >
