Given our discussion of what makes a good language last meeting [and the general interest in language amongst FPers], I thought I'd share this quantitative...
Jonathan Leonard
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Jun 1, 2009 5:22 pm
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That is a really great visualization of the benchmarks game -- seems to really answer the question. Another question I would like to ask the benchmarks game...
It does have its problems though. For one, it is at the mercy of each individual implementor and not all implementors are created equal in all languages. For...
Jonathan Leonard
johanatan@...
Jun 2, 2009 12:20 am
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... I think it's important to remember that these programs were optimized for speed; very few of them, if any, are written the way one would normally write a ...
... I think that's actually an interesting component to "The Game". Usually people writing in language X have an incentive to make their language look good. I...
Yes, but look good in terms of performance or code size? I'd prefer shorter easier to maintain codes with bottlenecks optimized away where required. Given...
Jonathan Leonard
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Jun 2, 2009 5:54 am
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P.S. If it weren't obvious from my last mail, I didn't realize that each 'language community' submitted its own codes. For some reason, I had figured there...
Jonathan Leonard
johanatan@...
Jun 2, 2009 5:56 am
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... Good point. As I mentioned in another recent post it seems a bit disingenuous to use these programs as measures of 'expressivity' in that case. ... Yep,...
Jonathan Leonard
johanatan@...
Jun 2, 2009 6:57 am
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... The benchmarks seem to be saying that some bottlenecks are not going to be optimized away, at least not in the languages themselves. I guess if one...
I think one way to deal with the problem of high speed but ugly code would be to change the acceptance criterion. Instead of just keeping the fastest solution...
Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP) 2009 Functional Programming As a Means, Not an End Call for Participation Sponsored by SIGPLAN ...
We need to hire some more devs full time to work on a clojure project (distributed backend hardcore clojure - not web dev). I would prefer to have someone in...
Sorry for the 9 (!) week gap. I have been completely swamped with summer traveling. I am also putting Wed Aug 26 at Stumbling Monk on the (google) calendar...
Joe points out that Ruby has gone out of business. I went by today to confirm this and look around for a new location which makes sense. Here's a meeting...
... Is it air-conditioned? Temperature for Wed is likely to be around 36C (=??F, sorry), which is about a kelvin shy of core body temperature. -- Ashley...
Both F# and Axum rock hard. NWC++ group is a great group, though I hate to admit I make it out to fewer meetings than I'd like. :-/ Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML...
I have added the pattern matching paper, along with my own notes to the google group. See also two links I dug up on doubly linked lists in Haskell. ...
Reminder: meeting tomorrow at 8pm. Below are the directions. See you there. Jeff Stumbling Monk 1635 E Olive Way Seattle, WA 98102 (206) 860-0916 Notes: the...
I am making a lisp syntax assembler in picoLARC on sourceforge.net . The lisp is assembler like. It's based on Intel machine code structure. The lisp is...
If you are looking for a new place to put this group I would like to suggest: There is a website where you can make new social networking websites at...
Not to rain on your parade but that seems like exactly the strategy MS is using with .NET [and to a lesser extent Sun with Java] (and they have beat you to...
Jonathan Leonard
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Aug 26, 2009 6:05 pm
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Hello My wife who works for Boeing thinks that software development in the US is dead because everything is outsourcing to India. But I have heard from a...
Are there any Smalltalk jobs in Seattle? What would be the best way to go about looking for one? How would I go about finding a job in Seattle that involved...
... Anyone who says that people can't get hired to do software in the USA is lying to you, or they're just misinformed and dwelling on gloom and doom....
As someone who lives and works regularly in both the Java and the .NET worlds, I can tell you for a fact that either one will get you hired. Demonstrating...
Speaking of jobs, does anyone on this group know of any good open positions? I would love to be doing functional but would consider other stuff too. Thanks, ...
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