begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:03:26AM -0700: [snip] > >Many of the most interesting areas of computing (to me) are > >evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence and simulation. All > >of these feel the need for speed. > > A key issue wrt speed is caching. Never compute something twice. > Functional programming makes caching of results much easier. Same > arguments => same result => use the cache. > > NetKernel (and the WWW) make serious use of this fact.
Prolog lives again, eh? -- The problem with prolog is that you need an order of magnitude more comments. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
