Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Generalizing three programs

2007-02-06 Thread Ketil Malde
Bjorn Lisper wrote: Erlang actually stands for "Ericsson Language". I think the alternative interpretation is intentional, though. According to this: http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/1999-February/98.html A.K.E. was the actual origin, but with an intentional ambiguity.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Generalizing three programs

2007-02-06 Thread Bjorn Lisper
>Queuing theory is a very large and mature area of >research, with many important applications in >industry. It is not a coincidence that a certain >telephone company named a functional programming >language after Erlang, the founder of queuing >theory. Erlang actually stands for "Ericsson Languag

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Generalizing three programs

2007-02-06 Thread Yitzchak Gale
apfelmus wrote: I'm unsure whether it's a good idea to simulate the situations, I'd prefer a more denotational approach... Queuing theory is a very large and mature area of research, with many important applications in industry. It is not a coincidence that a certain telephone company named a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Generalizing three programs

2007-02-05 Thread apfelmus
Andrew Wagner wrote: > Hi everyone, > I've got an interesting problem here I'm trying to solve. Actually, > I've got several problems which seem to have a very similar structure. > I want to find a way to abstract them to solve other problems which > can be thought about in the same way. Here they