Impressed

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 07:58:59 UTC, Stuart wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 07:45:20 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen 
> wrote:
>> On 28-07-2012 09:36, Stuart wrote:
>>> On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 21:59:33 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>>>
>>>> - Scheme
>>>> - Haskell
>>>> - OCaml
>>>> - F#
>>>> - Erlang
>>>> - Clojure
>>>> - Some C and C++ compilers (gcc, Intel, MSVC in release mode)
>>>> - Most commercial Lisp compilers
>>>
>>> So, as I said, nothing you can write a real program in - 
>>> except possibly
>>> for F#. The possibility of "some" C compilers supporting it 
>>> doesn't mean
>>> you can rely on the feature being present.
>>
>> Are you serious........?
>
> Uh, yeah? Aside from C (which doesn't always support tail call 
> optimisation), and F#, none of these languages would seem to 
> have any purpose on a desktop computer. I don't know of any 
> way, in this day and age, to write application software (e.g. 
> Notepad) for a 32 or 64-bit Windows 7 machine, in goddamn 
> Haskell. I may be mistaken.

What about X Window managers (xmonad) ?
Or Operating systems (Home)?

Tim Sweeney from Valve, seems to have a different opinion from you
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/popl/06/Tim-POPL.ppt


>
> As I understand it, languages like Scheme and Cojure exist 
> solely to keep mathematicians happy. If you can't call API 
> functions in it, what's the use of it?

Soundcloud, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook seem to think differently.

In Germany there are quite a few Clojure based projects both 
server
side and desktop based.

Some people are even crazy enough to sell PS games with Lisp
based engines (Crash Bandicoot/GOOL) or  Abuse in MS-DOS days.


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Paulo