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Comment Re:I don't get it (Score -1) 1475

if laws that govern industry can allow dumping in lakes and poluting the air, they can allow the gays to get married if it's good for buisness

not that i'm equating the two, just making an illustration on how cooperate law ignores all else and might even be used for good

Comment jet = tank (Score -1) 439

i always thought that jet was basically the same character as tank from matrix 1, they could easily drop that actor in and have him do the same character

but for fucks sake, the music made this anime what it is, kanno yoko and the same players should be allowed to work their magic.

it won't be good without a masato honda (or equally awesome sax player)

Displays

Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen? 403

Hogwash McFly writes "My boss gave me one of those USB-powered red LED scrolling displays as a Christmas gift, and while cycling the usual 'I read your emails' and 'ID10T Error' messages will be entertaining for a day or two, I was wondering if it could be put to more constructive uses. The configuration file is plaintext and supports different scroll speeds, flashing, bitmaps, and WAV sounds. The font is defined as 5x5 pixels per character, also stored in plaintext as 5 hex values, one for each vertical line of pixels. A dynamically generated message could prove useful in my day-to-day work on the helpdesk, but are there any interesting uses beyond network notifications and news feeds?"

Comment Consider haskell (Score -1) 2

I've only been programming for 8 years, and my favorite to work with and think about is haskell (www.haskell.org). It's a very modern and mature(ing) language that has alot of new and cutting edge features (alot of which end up in other languages). The programs tend to be very concise and elegant (but at times can look like perl or lisp but that is rare). It's purely functional, but they invented a way to embed the concept of side effect and input-ouput in the type system through the use of monads (it's very cool). I've had lisp and ML as an undergrad though, lisp was OK but seems to lack alot of newer features in ML/Haskell/Ocaml such as the milner-hindley type system and built in pattern matching. I wouldn't recommend ML but if you choose that be warned that it's much less flexible than haskell but they share a (nearly) common syntax. PS. lisp is not purely functional

Comment From experience (Score -1) 620

you just have to tackle a few interesting projects in FP to start to really get it. I've been doing FP for 3 years or so. In college we had lisp and ML but I opted to do alot of haskell stuff.

Haskell, erlang, and ocaml are all very similar and have a growing user base. I'm biased towards haskell but the others also have a strong user base.

if you really want to know FP, buy a book or read alot of docs and go idle in any of the major FP language channels on irc.freenode.net. Just like learning imperative languages, hands on is best.

I recommend #haskell

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