Ken Iverson is The Man

[pozorvlak]

This afternoon I gratefully took possession of the copy of Iverson's A Programming Language which the library had been holding for me. Within two sentences, he'd managed to say something so thought-provoking that I felt compelled to

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[totherme]

I think to express "A depends on B and C; B depends on D, and C depends on D and E" in haskell, you do something like:

A = f B C where
B = g D
C = h D E

Yesterday I saw a talk called "XML Stream Processing Using a Lazy Concurrent Language". That guy presented an extension to haskell that allows you to explicitly process some of your mutually independent arguments in parallel, using the syntax:

let B = g D
C = h D E
in
A = f B C

So, I guess you might like that :)