Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 16:22:41 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: 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: <4.2.0.58.19991209162117.00cc0670@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991209171109.58439A-100000@shell-2.enteract. com> References: <38502053.28737F7B@nisser.com>
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At 04:19 PM 12/9/1999 , David Scheidt 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. Non-deterministic pattern matching and backward chaining languages are even more powerful (though dangerous in the wrong hands). SNOBOL and Prolog can both produce results that are surprising -- in a good way if you've programmed well; in a bad way otherwise. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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