Brain-limited informatics problems

2009-09-29 Thread bearophile
The following is a quote from the transcript of this: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/armstrong-peyton-jones-erlang-haskell (To see the whole transcript click on the "show all" button, and then select "no style" if you use Firefox). This part of the dialogue shows a possible usage for pure (or m

Re: Brain-limited informatics problems

2009-09-29 Thread Walter Bright
bearophile wrote: This part of the dialogue shows a possible usage for pure (or more pure) languages: to correctly implement, avoiding to go mad, very tricky transactional algorithms. D's scope statement specifically addresses transactional safety.

Re: Brain-limited informatics problems

2009-09-30 Thread language_fan
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:27 -0700, Walter Bright thusly wrote: > bearophile wrote: >> This part of the dialogue shows a possible usage for pure (or more >> pure) languages: to correctly implement, avoiding to go mad, very >> tricky transactional algorithms. > > D's scope statement specifically addr