Re: Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-28 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Tim Chevalier wrote: On 1/27/08, Dipankar Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) most of the canonical US universities for CS (MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, CMU, etc) basically don't teach haskell or ML, or even talk much about it, relative to how much they talk about, say,

Re: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-28 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
On Jan 27, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Dipankar Ray wrote: thanks for the correction - very informative! that'll teach me to just go to the opencourseware site at MIT only... On that note, I'll point out that many (roughly half?) the undergraduate CS majors at MIT do a 5 year combined bachelor's

Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Paul, Saturday, January 26, 2008, 11:03:30 PM, you wrote: * Say computers are cheap but programmers are expensive whenever explaining a correctness or productivity feature. This is true only if talking to people in high-income nations. Even in low-income nations, its only

Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Dipankar, Sunday, January 27, 2008, 12:16:38 AM, you wrote: Anyway, no we're older, and we realize that it would have helped our math understanding out quite a bit had we learned more physics, engineering, etc. Or had we learned 19th century mathematics well. The Russian program seems

Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello jerzy, Sunday, January 27, 2008, 1:48:07 AM, you wrote: I've often heard from my Eastern European colleagues that they learned almost nothing about computer science back home... === Well, I have the impression, at least I intended to say just the reverse (not the opposite), that the

Re: Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Hans van Thiel
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 11:49 +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Dipankar, Sunday, January 27, 2008, 12:16:38 AM, you wrote: Anyway, no we're older, and we realize that it would have helped our math understanding out quite a bit had we learned more physics, engineering, etc. Or had we

Re: Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Victor Nazarov
On Jan 27, 2008 11:49 AM, Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh, yes, they are really still study 19th century physics, but not because of great mind, but due to age of university professors. i've studied at Moscow University in 89-91 and department of computer languages still studied

Re: Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Don Stewart
brian.sniffen: On Jan 27, 2008 3:49 AM, Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a few months ago i have a conversation with today student and they still learn Lisp (!!!). it seems that they will switch to more modern FP languages no earlier that this concrete professor, head of PL

Re: Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Brian Sniffen
On Jan 27, 2008 3:49 AM, Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a few months ago i have a conversation with today student and they still learn Lisp (!!!). it seems that they will switch to more modern FP languages no earlier that this concrete professor, head of PL department, which in 60s

Re: Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Lennart Augustsson
You mean as the the POPL paper, http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2622 ? On Jan 27, 2008 10:30 PM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And just as PLT Scheme announces they're moving to immutable, pure lists http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2631 They'll be getting a type system soon,

Re: Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Derek Elkins
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 14:30 -0800, Don Stewart wrote: brian.sniffen: On Jan 27, 2008 3:49 AM, Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a few months ago i have a conversation with today student and they still learn Lisp (!!!). it seems that they will switch to more modern FP languages

Re: Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Well, the POPL talk was very pro-types, saying that when you move from a scripting language to a language to write real systems you need static types. On Jan 27, 2008 9:52 PM, Derek Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 14:30 -0800, Don Stewart wrote: brian.sniffen: On Jan

Re: Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Derek Elkins
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 17:25 -0500, Brian Sniffen wrote: On Jan 27, 2008 3:49 AM, Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a few months ago i have a conversation with today student and they still learn Lisp (!!!). it seems that they will switch to more modern FP languages no earlier that

Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Dipankar Ray
Hello Jerzy and Bulat, Thanks for your perspectives. Bulat, I can understand that you find it shocking that the folks at Moscow University still study Lisp, but I wouldn't be so quick to condemn them for being dinosaurs. After all, they just stopped teaching the SICP course (using Scheme) at

Re[4]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Hans, Sunday, January 27, 2008, 5:02:57 PM, you wrote: studied at Moscow University in 89-91 and department of computer languages still studied Lisp at those times (!). a few months ago i This reminds me, I worked at a Dutch telecomm software production company for a short while in

Re: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Dan Licata
On Jan27, Dipankar Ray wrote: What I mean by this is that if I look at the CS programs at Berkeley, MIT, CMU, I don't see a huge emphasis on PL. Looking now at the MIT opencourseware offerings in EECS, I see no undergrad course that suggests that you'd learn anything about modern type

Re: Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Tim Chevalier
On 1/27/08, Dipankar Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jerzy and Bulat, Thanks for your perspectives. Bulat, I can understand that you find it shocking that the folks at Moscow University still study Lisp, but I wouldn't be so quick to condemn them for being dinosaurs. After all, they just

Re: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-27 Thread Dipankar Ray
thanks for the correction - very informative! that'll teach me to just go to the opencourseware site at MIT only... On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Dan Licata wrote: On Jan27, Dipankar Ray wrote: What I mean by this is that if I look at the CS programs at Berkeley, MIT, CMU, I don't see a huge

The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-26 Thread Paul Johnson
Evan Laforge wrote: Java's just wordy like that. In python you'd say max(foos, key=lambda x: x.update_time). While this is true, I was also thinking of the typical audience SPJ specified: senior technical people and managers. Most of these people have heard of Python and Ruby, but see

Re: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-26 Thread Tim Chevalier
On 1/26/08, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Say computers are cheap but programmers are expensive whenever explaining a correctness or productivity feature. This is true only if talking to people in high-income nations. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc

Re: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-26 Thread Paul Johnson
Tim Chevalier wrote: On 1/26/08, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Say computers are cheap but programmers are expensive whenever explaining a correctness or productivity feature. This is true only if talking to people in high-income nations. Even in low-income

Re: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-26 Thread Tim Chevalier
On 1/26/08, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Chevalier wrote: This is true only if talking to people in high-income nations. Even in low-income nations, its only false in the short term. If you have skilled programmers with computers and Internet connections then their wages

Re: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-26 Thread jerzy . karczmarczuk
Tim Chevalier/Paul Johnson about cheap computers, expensive programmers This is true only if talking to people in high-income nations. Even in low-income nations, its only false in the short term. If you have skilled programmers with computers and Internet connections then their wages

Re: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-26 Thread Dipankar Ray
Jerzy, this is a very interesting point you bring up, from my perspective. I should point out that certain US-trained mathematicans (myself included) are actually quite jealous of the Russian math education system - they produce mathematicians who tend to be excellent in depth and breadth,

Re: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-26 Thread jerzy . karczmarczuk
Dipankar Ray writes: I should point out that certain US-trained mathematicans (myself included) are actually quite jealous of the Russian math education system - they produce mathematicians who tend to be excellent... Anyway, no we're older, and we realize that it would have helped our math

Re: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-26 Thread Artem V. Andreev
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And, PLEASE, Artem V. Andreev, before you say plainly again that I am definitely wrong. I didn't invent what I say, and I hope nobody can accuse me of any inimical thoughts against Russians. I had not the slightest intention to accuse you of anything. Nor did I want