[Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On 10/07/07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
> > On 10/07/07, Alex Queiroz <asandroq at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>      So you think we use C because we like it? :-) When this
> >> revolutionary tool of yours arrive that compiles Haskell to PIC
> >> devices, I'm gonna be the first to use it.
> >>
> >
> > No, you use it because you have to, there is very little choice. Which
> > is exactly my point.
> >
> > I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that when nobody uses C for
> > desktop applications, games etc. anymore because there's a better
> > language available and widely supported, that some version of this
> > "next mainstream language" will make it onto embedded devices too.
> >
> > The revolution (tm) won't come at the same time for all domains. C is
> > probably used/supported in embedded devices mostly because it's
> > popular for non-embedded devices (not because C is somehow uniquely
> > suited for embedded devices). So what happens when something else is
> > popular, when most industries have stopped using C and almost nobody
> > coming from university knows it very well or at all? Isn't it likely
> > that a lot of vendors will write compilers targeting embedded devices
> > for this new popular language?
>
> Mmm... a garbage-collected language on a PIC with single-digit RAM
> capacity? That's going to be fun! :-D
>
> OTOH, isn't somebody out there using Haskell to design logic? (As in,
> computer ICs.) I doubt you'll even run "Haskell" on a PIC, but you might
> well use it to *construct* a program that works on a PIC...
>

Yeah, and 640K should be enough for everybody... Again, the original
statement was about 20 years down the line. Go back 20 years and
people would say similar things about C (comparing it to assembly).

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