[Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On 16/07/07, Sebastian Sylvan <sebastian.sylvan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
>

[2] http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/

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