Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-17 Thread Ralf Muschall
Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They still live in Emacs. (Emacs Lisp's variables are dynamically scoped.) OK. I tend to forget about this one, since I'm using it every day (and use the macro "lexical-let" unless I am sure that no evil things will happen). Ralf

Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-17 Thread Craig Dickson
Doug Ransom wrote: > I think you are mistakening ignorance for stupidity. It > is true that C/C++ programmers like to write OO and few > have any idea about functional programming, but very few > will miss the ability to constantly shoot themselves in > the foot with uninitalized random pointers

RE: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-17 Thread Doug Ransom
> > If C# again makes it easy to write unsafe code, then in order > to avoid the learning curve, many current C/C++ programmers > are likely to continue programming in The Old Way. The trick > lies in the learning curve. > I think you are mistakening ignorance for stupidity. It is true tha

Re: Haskell for DSPs ?

2000-08-17 Thread Sylvan Ravinet
Hi, For DSP with Haskell, I remember having seen 2 years ago a presentation by James Hook (Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Pacific Software Research) on Hawk, which should be a Haskell derivative. http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/ should be a starting point Hope it is releva

Re: Haskell for DSPs ?

2000-08-17 Thread Kwanghoon Choi
Hello, I knew one relevant link for functional DSP: http://users.snip.net/~donadio/mpd-hs-dsp.html Kwanghoon On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Axel Jantsch wrote: > > Hi, > > I wonder if anybody has ever tried to develop a good compiler for Haskell > or any other functional language for a DSP processo

Haskell for DSPs ?

2000-08-17 Thread Axel Jantsch
Hi, I wonder if anybody has ever tried to develop a good compiler for Haskell or any other functional language for a DSP processor? There are no good C compilers for DSPs and much of DSP programming is still done in assembler, due to the irregularity of DSP instruction sets and the peculiarity

Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-17 Thread Frank Atanassow
Ralf Muschall writes: > > simplistic, binary distinction), then you have to decide where to draw the > > line between "functional languages" and other languages that may, to some > > I think it became impossible to draw that line since the inventors > and maintainers of dysfunctional langaug

Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-17 Thread Lars Henrik Mathiesen
> From: Ralf Muschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 16 Aug 2000 21:46:44 +0200 > "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > simplistic, binary distinction), then you have to decide where to > > draw the line between "functional languages" and other languages > > that may, to some > > I think