Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:36:05 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net>, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Yahoo hacked last night Message-ID: <38503CE5.9F3F8377@nisser.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991209171109.58439A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
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David Scheidt wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Roelof Osinga wrote: > > Er, because I no longer use any functional languages. I don't doubt that > functional languages will be around for a while. They are nice to program > in, once you get your mind around them. The level of abstraction they > provide lets one do very powerful things easily. I once had to translate a > short scheme program, maybe 150 or 200 lines, into C. It took the better > part of a thousand lines, and a lot of head scratching to get right. The > scheme program was developed, and debugged , inside the course of an > afternoon. Yes, I know. A functional language can even be more expressive than an OO one. I defined the language metacircularly at the end. Did shorten the program substantially. Somewhere up to half. Too bad I didn't fully complete it. The Smalltalk version compiles to plain C <g>. Alas, only the interpreter and typechecker thusfar. I'm still meaning to pick it up again, though. Real Soon Now <g>. > Whatever became of symbolics and their Lisp Machines? I have never seen one, > but they sound neat. They were very neat. But now also past tense I believe. Unfortunately I haven't had the pleasure of working on one, either. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. Telekabel home http://nisser.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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