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On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 04:32:56PM -0400, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On 07/07/2015 03:50 PM, Bob Paddock (graceindustries AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > "Parallel processing,
> > concurrency, threading is an very important point in these days"
> > 
> > To add other obscure languages to this thread (I have heard of all of
> > them except Crystal, need to look that one up).
> > 
> > Erlang, that does parallel processing without threads.
> > Erlang's designer saw threads as evil and went with message passing.
> > Read Joe Armstrong's thesis.
> > Never heard of Erlang?  It runs a large part of the worlds phone network.
> 
>   Erlang looks fantastic, until you get to that
> nonintuitive-to-thepoint-of-incomprehensibility syntax!
> 
> > Functional Languages are the long term future rather than procedural
> > languages for maintainability and keeping out bugs.
> 
>   For the most part I'd have to agree...but they're always going to be
> slow, because functional language code (much like object-oriented code)
> generally doesn't map all that well to the way processors actually
> *work*. (unless you're running an iAPX-432, which I'm assuming you
> aren't! ;))
> 
>   Of course one could make "the Lisp argument": "Now that processors are
> faster, the performance problems people complained about years ago are
> irrelevant!" ;)

Yeah, and I find that the netlist generation of my current projects
(over 20 seconds) is already slow enough. I have the feeling that scheme
is part of the reason.

    Gabriel