From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 9 15:25:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD4B14E7C; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 15:25:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA04057; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:22:50 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991209162117.00cc0670@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 16:22:41 -0700 To: David Scheidt , Roelof Osinga From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Yahoo hacked last night Cc: Tani Hosokawa , Jonathon McKitrick , Alfred Perlstein , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: References: <38502053.28737F7B@nisser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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