On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Eduardo Costa wrote:
[About the scientific skepticism, pointers to literature
re. mechanical arm an other goodies].
Thanks, Eduardo, for your pointers - this is much better :-).
To clarify my previous message: I did not question scientific
Dear Jan Skibinski
I contacted Dr. Alcimar about your letter. He thought that it is fascinating.
He says that skepticism is the main driving force behind scientific progress.
He informed Dr. Gow, Dr. Brash and Dr. Paschoarelli about your questions,
and asked one of his collaborators to prepare a
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Eduardo Costa wrote:
[About several promissing signs of usage of FP
for scientific applications].
Far from pouring cold water on anybody's enthusiasm
regarding the usage of FP to scientific problems
(I would really like to see Haske
Here is the second part of my answer. First, I want to tell you that
my feelings on the subject are exactly like yours, i.e., (a) I think that
it is possible to use Haskell to build packages like Matlab, Labview,
Maple, Mathematica, etc. (b) There is clear advantages in doing this.
However, I want
