Re: DDC compiler and effects; better than Haskell? (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] unsafeDestructiveAssign?)

2009-08-13 Thread Gregory Michael Travis
"John A. De Goes" sed: > Hmmm, bad example. Assume memory instead. That said, reordering/ > parallelization of *certain combinations of* writes/reads to > independent files under whole program analysis is no less safe than > sequential writes/reads. It just "feels" less safe, but the one thing >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Sugestion for a Haskell mascot

2009-03-10 Thread Gregory Michael Travis
Maur??cio sed: > Hi, > > Here in Brazil we have a forest animal we name 'preguiƧa' -- literally, > lazyness. What better mascot we could have for Haskell? It lives (and > sleeps) in trees, and if you see the main picture in wikipedia articles > you can easily imagine the tree branch beeing repla