Read a sentence like this "If your programming language requires you to use functors, you're not getting all the benefits of a modern programming environment. See if you can get some of your money back."
If this is not a very subtle pun (regarding Java functors vs. Haskell functors), which probably it isn't, then it is another indication of sloppiness in Joel's posts on the topic of MapReduce, which he is essentially alluding to in this new post, which in turn is meant to remind us of his earlier Java rant that was very much centered around MapReduce: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html. It may be Ok that MapReduce is a misnomer (because map and reduce sound so good; so I am not complaining so much about MapReduce's name), but I sort of dislike the idea of explaining map and reduce to "ordinary programmers" with examples that are *not* clear-cut forms of map and reduce. Just in case, it is not obvious anyhow: MapReduce's map and reduce are not (Lisp's or Haskell's) map and reduce: - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ralf/MapReduce - http://blogs.msdn.com/ralflammel/archive/2006/06/19/637522.aspx Ralf (obviously in pedantic mode) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:haskell-cafe- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 1:11 AM > To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org > Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Can Your Programming Language Do This? > > >From the excellent programming blog "Joel on software", a very good > text if you need to convince Java or C programmers that functional > programming is a A Good Thing. > > Probably all the readers of this list will find it brings nothing new > (that's perfectly right) but it is oriented towards ordinary > programmers :-) > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
