Hello Peter, Sunday, May 18, 2008, 7:27:35 PM, you wrote:
> As a side note on this discussion, isn't it so that the current CPU > hardware evolved in such a way that it is better suited for imperative > programs? (I'm not talking about the GPU, that's another story). I mean, > hardware gets optimized to run applications faster, but these > applications are mainly written in C/C++, so you get a nice feedback > loop here... i don't think it's fundamental limit. hardware is better suited to assembler, naturally, but C++ compilers overruled asm. haskell-like languages can be theoretically compiled to the code which is as good as asm, it's just not the current state-of-the-art nevertheless, it's true that new hardware arise and it's two-way road: FP languages are used more due to multi-core hardware, and new hardware becomes practically useful due to new ways of programming -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe