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I said just that, twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240669, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240
by catnaroek 10y ago
I said just that, twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240669, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240622
The reason why I care more about values is that, in a general-purpose language, computations will always be somewhat ill-behaved. As far as I can tell, the most we can aspire to is to “cordon off” the misbehavior so that it doesn't infect values - which is exactly what strict languages do, and lazy languages don't do.
- danharaj 10y agoAh so you did. I think your opinion is fair. I care more about computations because they're easier to compose than values. i suppose those are the two major camps on the issue.
- catnaroek 10y ago> I care more about computations because they're easier to compose than values. That's also fair, of course.