[Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On 10/07/07, Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 21:19:42 Andrew Coppin wrote:
> > Hugh Perkins wrote:
> > > Yeah I agree with this.  C# totally rocks, but threading is an
> > > unsolved problem.
> >
> > I have repeatedly attempted to discover what C# actually is...
>
> Take Java. Make it Windows only. Fix some mistakes. Tweak performance. Add a
> little functionality (e.g. operator overloading). That is C#.
>
> Both are designed for GUI and web programming, so they don't fare well for
> massive concurrency, high-performance numerics or allocation-intensive
> algorithms (e.g. idiomatic functional programming).

C# 3.0 gets it a bit closer, though. I wonder what C# 4.0 will look
like, though I worry about the complexity of the language when they
keep tacking stuff on like that.


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