[Haskell-cafe] Re: Python's big challenges, Haskell's big advantages?

[Jonathan Cast]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 23:42 +0200, Arnar Birgisson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 23:20, Aaron Denney <wnoise at ofb.net> wrote:
> >>> The central aspect in my mind is a default share-everything, or
> >>> default share-nothing.
> >>
> [..snip...]
> > These are, in fact, process models.  They are implemented on top of thread models,
> > but that's a performance hack.  And while putting this model on top
> > restores much of the programming sanity, in languages with mutable
> > variables and references that can be passed, you still need a fair
> > bit of discipline to keep that sanity.  There, the implementation detail
> > of thread, rather than process allows and even encourages shortcuts that
> > violate the process model.
> 
> Well, this is a viewpoint I don't totally agree with. Correct me if
> I'm not understanding you, but you seem to be making the point that OS
> processes are often preferred because with threads, you *can* get
> yourself in trouble by using shared memory.
> 
> The thing I don't agree with is "let's use A because B has dangerous
> features". This is sort of like the design mantra of languages like
> Java. 

Or Haskell.

jcc