Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 00:29:43 01/16/03
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On January 15, 2003 at 21:41:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Saying "vincent exaggerates all the time" is like calling a cup of sand a >"desert". It is a gross understatement... exaggerate means to expand >something beyond its normal boundary. Most of what he says is not based on >any sort of factual evidence whatsoever, which makes it more fiction and >less exaggeration. I know there has been many discussions, the last one I remember was about functional languages. IIRC he said something about them being slow and gave an example with a program he wrote that was 2000 times slower than in C. Everyone disagreed, but from my (granted limited) experience he is right. It's like a hiarcy: asm, C, C++, java,... the more advanced the slower it is. I guess there is not much of a theoretical reason why that should be true, but it just happens to be a fact most of the time. Besides that, I don't think anyone really talked about what a functional language is, so isn't it possible that too was a source of disagreement? -S.
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