Re: [Haskell-cafe] A Thought: Backus, FP, and Brute Force Learning

2013-03-22 Thread OWP
f his theory made it into Haskell and other commonly used functional languages. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: > On 13-03-20 06:54 PM, OWP wrote: > >> For me personally, one thing I enjoy about a typical procedural program >> is that it allows me to "

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A Thought: Backus, FP, and Brute Force Learning

2013-03-20 Thread OWP
I made an error. I meant FP to stand for Functional Programming, the concept not the language. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:54 PM, OWP wrote: > This thought isn't really related to Haskell specifically but it's more > towards FP ideal in general. > > I'm new to the FP

[Haskell-cafe] A Thought: Backus, FP, and Brute Force Learning

2013-03-20 Thread OWP
This thought isn't really related to Haskell specifically but it's more towards FP ideal in general. I'm new to the FP world and to get me started, I began reading a few papers. One paper is by John Backus called "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and It'

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Specialized Computer Architecture - A Question

2013-03-18 Thread OWP
ld look like? Mainly, what could be left to compile to the stock architecture and what could be sent out to more specialized areas? On 3/18/13, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: > > On 19/03/2013, at 9:31 AM, OWP wrote: > >> If I may ask, I'm not quite sure what O(2^n) an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Specialized Computer Architecture - A Question

2013-03-18 Thread OWP
l? Could there be a competitive advantage to specialized architecture if Moore's Law were to go away? On 3/17/13, Gwern Branwen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:56 PM, OWP wrote: >> These "stock architectures", were they really so good that they out >> performed the special

[Haskell-cafe] Specialized Computer Architecture - A Question

2013-03-17 Thread OWP
Hi, I was reading the paper "A History of Haskell: being lazy with class" ( http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/History_of_Haskel) and came on a section (I 2.1) which briefly explained the work people did on making non-von Neumann architectures. It concluded by saying "Much (but not all) of this