From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Avoiding side effects
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:30:54 +0200
Date: 2008-10-14T09:30:44+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18uado7gsipkb$.1sl1fmtv24lve.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: C5195825.FC7C4%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:55:17 +0100, (see below) wrote:
> FP started with LISP, ca. 1960, and turned into a major academic industry in
> the early 1980s. Only AI rivals it as a wholesale waste of CS effort.
(:-))
However there is a crucial difference between them. Lambda calculus is a
nice theory of little or no practical use.
AI has no theory whatsoever, it is a bunch of methods useful and used in
practice.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2008-09-30 5:50 Avoiding side effects Anders Wirzenius
2008-09-30 7:48 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-09-30 9:20 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-09-30 11:36 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-09-30 12:43 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-09-30 10:42 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-09-30 11:12 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-02 12:56 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-10-06 12:09 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-07 11:08 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-10-07 14:24 ` (see below)
2008-10-07 14:47 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-07 14:51 ` (see below)
2008-10-08 5:16 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-08 7:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-08 15:32 ` (see below)
2008-10-13 12:27 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-13 13:21 ` Marco
2008-10-13 18:55 ` (see below)
2008-10-14 7:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2008-10-14 11:44 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-13 18:49 ` (see below)
2008-10-13 21:22 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-10-13 21:53 ` (see below)
2008-10-14 6:17 ` mockturtle
2008-10-14 14:58 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-10-14 6:22 ` Avoiding side effects and other dogma Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-14 13:48 ` (see below)
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