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• Cool, thanks! (Score:1)

  by excalibor (262)

  Good entry, and the article referenced is cool as well (Joel is right sometimes :-)
  
  Don't miss Joel link to Steve's Rant: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html [blogspot.com]
  
  Excellent as well.
  
  And I'm on to your Haskell presentation!
  
  As for concurrency, I know Erlang-like concurrency is perfect for declarative languages, you can get a similar thing (i.e. Communicating Sequential Processes: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CommunicatingSequentialProcesses [c2.com]) in Scheme (as the easiest language to see a

  --
  $ pugs -M6 -e 'say "use 6 :)"'
  use 6 :)
  • Re:Cool, thanks! (Score:2)

    by ziggy (25) on 2006.08.02 8:33 (#49146) Journal

    As for concurrency, I know Erlang-like concurrency is perfect for declarative languages, you can get a similar thing (...) in Scheme (...)

    Actually, you can get exactly the same thing in Scheme. Just use Termite [toute.ca]. (Probably not ready for prime time, but under actively development.)

    any easy way to use hugs w/o emacs??

    Um, yeah. On the command line. But I use ghc[i].

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    • Re:Cool, thanks! (Score:1)

      by excalibor (262)

      Ah, that's really interesting! (Termite) I'll check it out, thanks!
      
      Of course, having the source on a window and the CLI with readline or a similar line-editor in another (or different screen, anyway) will be all that's needed... forgot to :load *grin*
      
      thanks!!
      
      PS- off to try and understand Pugs!

      --
      $ pugs -M6 -e 'say "use 6 :)"'
      use 6 :)