Some of my past Usenet posts I want to refer to often. There are others not listed here.
| Title | Date & Link | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| A question about tuples | Apr 8, 2011 | Parametricity. |
| Favorite Research Papers | Nov 10, 2007 | |
| XML? | Oct 17, 2007 | Comments on two Haskell XML libraries: HXT and HaXML. |
| GHC install prefix and upgrades | Mar 14, 2007 | |
| Defence of recursive programming | Jun 23, 2005 | |
| But the real world has mutable state... | Aug 04, 2004 | But physics has no state. |
| Is the Functional Paradigm suitable for Math Heavy problems? | Jan 13, 2004 | Immutability simplifies backtracking search. |
| Jan 11, 2004 | Recursion simplifies operations on trees (math expressions). | |
| Jan 10, 2004 | FPL does not use more stack. | |
| Dec 27, 2003 | Theorem proving is Math Heavy too. | |
| Offering abstract data structures (with simple and efficient implementation) | Dec 14, 2003 | “Everything is a set” considered harmful. |
| Express What, not How. | Oct 15, 2003 | The “what” of queues, erratum. |
| Oct 15, 2003 | Let programmers choose when to abstract; the “what” of queues | |
| [OT]Re: AI direction to approach. //Quanta | Jul 12, 2003 | The halting problem helps, not hurts. |
| local variables don't cause side effects | Jul 12, 2003 | Recursion should be easier than iteration! |
| Jul 10, 2003 | ||
| How fast can you write functional programs? | May 03, 2003 | |
| Why isn't X mainstream?---A oldbie's view | Apr 17, 2003 | Sarcasm on C performance. |
| Why isn't Haskell mainstream?---A newbie's view | Apr 15, 2003 | Beware of counting books. |
| "Simple" algebraic expression | Jan 10, 2003 | "algebra" should allow "if", "min"... |
| Do we really need FPLs? We can do everything with the imperative languages. | Jun 08, 2002 | Normalized metric of language performance. |
| Uniqueness typing vs Monads | Apr 11, 2002 | Monads help reuse. |
| Of languages and religions | Jul 17, 2001 | What helped me learn FP. |
| Sort Issue. Haskell. | Jul 15, 2001 | Why students can't self-study. |
| On Education and Writing Style | Jun 29, 2001 | Sources of two quotes on engineering and software costs. |
| Haskell98 - Where it used ? (example of use) | Jun 28, 2001 | Sarcasm on “one idea per line” and imperative programming being simpler. |
| FP is an excellent match for modern CPUs | Apr 16, 2001 | Sarcasm on “90% of software”. |
| Me and FP (somewhat longish and boring...) | Aug 23, 2000 | Programming languages should not be just easy to write. |
| Are foldl and foldr Useful? (troll/sarcasm) (was: Are Monads Useful?) | Aug 16, 2000 | |
| Space leaks etc. | Jun 05, 2000 | C performance is actually less uniform than FPL performance. |
| Does 1= -1? | Jan 30, 1999 | sqrt is principal root and why |
| Is ML a popular programming lang? [Yes, a new academic year has begun] | Nov 05, 1998 |