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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla |
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Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:03:59 +0900 |
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>>>>> "Catalin" == Catalin Marinas <address@hidden> writes:
Catalin> A second problem I think is Haskell. Not so many people
Catalin> can help with coding
Haskell is no harder than Lisp in principle, and if you'll go back in
this list a bit you'll find a thread on Lisp and parentheses where
asuffield makes a really convincing case (to me, anyway) that
Haskell's presentation with minimal parentheses plus the "offsides
rule" is far more readable than Lisp. I think it's reasonable to
suppose that people who want to help with darcs can learn enough
Haskell to do so.
Catalin> and it is also much slower than C or C++. The today's
Catalin> compilers are not smart enough to optimally deal with
Catalin> pure functional languages.
Please confirm it's possible to compile darcs, and which compiler you
used. I heard recently that darcs is strongly dependent on Hugs98,
which is an interpreter. Seemed a little odd (Haskell98 is a
well-defined language, and Hugs doesn't have all that much in the way
of extensions), but that's what I heard.
Catalin> While darcs is a nice research project, my recommendation
Catalin> would be to stay with arch, at least until you hear
Catalin> somebody happily using darcs with a huge source tree like
Catalin> the Linux kernel.
I wouldn't go so far as that, but certainly I'd say to investigate
experience with a tree 3X as big as your current one, to give room to
grow while darcs does!
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- [Gnu-arch-users] darcs vs tla, Timothy Webster, 2004/11/07
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Catalin Marinas, 2004/11/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Jani Monoses, 2004/11/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Catalin Marinas, 2004/11/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Andrew Suffield, 2004/11/08
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Kannan Goundan, 2004/11/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/11/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Andrew Suffield, 2004/11/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Thomas Lord, 2004/11/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Catalin Marinas, 2004/11/09
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: darcs vs tla, Anand Kumria, 2004/11/09
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Catalin Marinas, 2004/11/09