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What's the point of the story? Don't get it. Do you agree with Oliver's statement, or do you think people should have talked more about sudoku solvers?
by erikb 15y ago
What's the point of the story? Don't get it. Do you agree with Oliver's statement, or do you think people should have talked more about sudoku solvers?
- gghh 15y agoWell, both. I think that we need mind-blowing sudoku solvers where Alonzo-Church-oriented minds shows the more Turing-Machine-inclined fellas what kind of terseness you can achieve with functional programmming (simple problems are the best to explain features of a programming paradigm), and I also believe that we need webservers that go beyond 10k simultaneous connections while still being simple and maintanable and modular (i.e., real life functional programming). I just find that that thread shows perfectly how the functional programming folks perceive themselves as not having a real killer application for what they believe is a paradigm that suits a certain class of problems like a glove. "Haskell is the language that everybody talks about [like I am doing here :-)], but nobody uses" said Simon Peyton-Jones. There are only a few industrial applications of FP, I am thinking of the trading firm Jane Street and the security company galois.com . It didn't take off yet, I'd say. But I don't want this thread to replicate that troll -- i.e. becaming an Emacs Vs Vim kind of discussion. I just believe that the thread linked above well reflects a situation deeply rooted in the programming community.