[Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

Sebastian Sylvan sebastian.sylvan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 15:33:48 EDT 2007


On 16/07/07, Derek Elkins <derek.a.elkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 17:41 +0100, Martin Coxall wrote:
> > >
> > > Ah, the secret of Haskell is to make low-level-looking code run slower
> > > than high level code so that people write high-level code.
> > >
> >
> > The secret of programming is to know which tools to use for which job.
> > If you're writing device drivers in Visual Basic, you've made a
> > strategic misstep and need to re-evaluate.
>
> That  sounds like a challenge.

Well they've been written in both Haskell[1], and C#[2], so VB might
not be out of the realm of possibility (in fact, I think any language
that compiles to CIL is fine for [2])!


[1] http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/
[2] http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/

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