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What, again?What, again?Posted May 3, 2007 16:03 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190)In reply to: What, again? by ncm Parent article: The Rise of Functional Languages (Linux Journal)
> Perhaps the greatest deficit of all these languages is their inability to manage resources outside the mathematical domain of the language. Toss in some file descriptors, sockets, database connections, or locks, and suddenly you're back to the Stone Age.
Good flamebait; of course, Genera is but one counter-example.
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What, again? Posted May 3, 2007 18:54 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Google doesn't know about it -- unless you're talking about the Symbolics programming environment (R.I.P.)?
What, again? Posted May 3, 2007 23:23 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190) [Link] Yes, the one that was 100% Lisp - except it was an OS, not just a programming environment; in order to move it to Alphas under OSF/1, they basically wrote a Symbolics 3600 emulator and shifted it wholesale.
(And as far as I'm concerned, that's where I leave this discussion. What you have voiced here is a prejudice, not an argument.)
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