Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-09-29 Thread Pedro Bessa
Em 30-09-2012 00:35, Pedro Bessa escreveu: Em 15-08-2012 03:40, Benjamin Smedberg escreveu: On 8/15/2012 2:24 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote: Ian, Mozilla, I thought all fast functional programming languages were Lisp dialects, but that's not true and you can use other fast functional programming langu

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-09-29 Thread Pedro Bessa
Em 15-08-2012 03:40, Benjamin Smedberg escreveu: On 8/15/2012 2:24 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote: Ian, Mozilla, I thought all fast functional programming languages were Lisp dialects, but that's not true and you can use other fast functional programming languages, but now that you said Rust, I think th

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-29 Thread Simon Kornblith
On Aug 29, 2:17 am, Pedro Bessa wrote: > Design patterns solve a problem, but the problem shouldn't have existed in > the first place. Prototypal OO doesn't have the problems that traditional > OO has. Lua is fast, prototypal, has C interop and was used to create World > of Warcraft, the most fina

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-28 Thread Pedro Bessa
o: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:00:47 PM > Subject: Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late! > > Computers have lots of cores now, so they need concurrent code and writing > concurrent code is hard in C++, but easy in functional programming > lan

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-18 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
On 8/18/12 9:41 AM, Chris Double wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote: >> Since there's no functional programming language with the three >> features that you mentioned, it looks to me like you'll have to go >> with C or C++. > > There are a few functional programming langu

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-18 Thread Chris Double
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote: > Since there's no functional programming language with the three > features that you mentioned, it looks to me like you'll have to go > with C or C++. There are a few functional programming languages that match those three features. Obviously R

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-16 Thread Pedro Bessa
Em 15-08-2012 03:40, Benjamin Smedberg escreveu: On 8/15/2012 2:24 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote: Ian, Mozilla, I thought all fast functional programming languages were Lisp dialects, but that's not true and you can use other fast functional programming languages, but now that you said Rust, I think th

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-16 Thread Pedro Bessa
Em 15-08-2012 03:40, Benjamin Smedberg escreveu: On 8/15/2012 2:24 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote: Ian, Mozilla, I thought all fast functional programming languages were Lisp dialects, but that's not true and you can use other fast functional programming languages, but now that you said Rust, I think th

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-15 Thread Tim
On Wednesday, 15 August 2012 13:46:59 UTC+12, pedb...@gmail.com wrote: > Linus Torvalds flamed C++. > > - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57918 > > > > Paul Graham said his company moved faster than its competition, because his > company used Lisp. > > - http://www.pa

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-15 Thread Joshua Cranmer
On 8/14/2012 9:46 PM, pedbe...@gmail.com wrote: Linus Torvalds flamed C++. - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57918 Paul Graham said his company moved faster than its competition, because his company used Lisp. - http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html Design Patterns are sol

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-14 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 8/15/2012 2:24 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote: Ian, Mozilla, I thought all fast functional programming languages were Lisp dialects, but that's not true and you can use other fast functional programming languages, but now that you said Rust, I think the programming language that you should use must be

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-14 Thread Pedro Bessa
rom: pedbe...@gmail.com To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:00:47 PM Subject: Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late! Computers have lots of cores now, so they need concurrent code and writing concurrent code is hard in C++, but easy in functional progra

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-14 Thread Ian Melven
have you seen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28programming_language%29 ? thanks, ian - Original Message - From: pedbe...@gmail.com To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:00:47 PM Subject: Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late! Computers have

Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-14 Thread pedbessa
Computers have lots of cores now, so they need concurrent code and writing concurrent code is hard in C++, but easy in functional programming languages. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-p

quick! use lisp! before it's too late!

2012-08-14 Thread pedbessa
Linus Torvalds flamed C++. - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57918 Paul Graham said his company moved faster than its competition, because his company used Lisp. - http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html Design Patterns are solutions to problems, but the problems shouldn't hav