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Max Bolingbroke
Personal blog · bloggablea.wordpress.comprogramming
Max Bolingbroke writes :: (Bloggable a) => a -> IO (), a personal blog at bloggablea.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2007, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite this blog's post on Haskell's record system when discussing the language's limitations for serious programming. Otherwise the comments only mention the post as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Programming language geek-outs with your host, Max Bolingbroke
What Hacker News says?
I'll consider Haskell for serious programming when (and if) it gets a decent record system. http://bloggablea.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/haskell-records-c...
Comment linking /2007/04/24/haskell-records-considered-grungy/
on “Haskell in Production: The good, the bad, and the ugly”See https://bloggablea.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/haskell-records-... Otherwise: If you want to see some articles that also talk about the problems of the language, your best bet is to read the papers of the people who make the language. They are acutely aware of the problems. The downside is, that you have to learn the jargon first. I find most academic papers about Haskell and functional programming surprisingly rea…
Comment linking /2007/04/24/haskell-records-considered-grungy/
on “Why Haskell is Kinda Cool”Perhaps this would be an extremely inefficient use of chip real estate, but what if extra cores were used to execute the same set of instructions in parallel with both outcomes of conditional branches (i.e. completely replace branch prediction) and take whichever one ends up being correct? On second thought, it's probably not worth it. It seems modern branch predictors are at least 90% accurate ( http://en.wikipedia…
Comment linking /2007/04/27/so-does-anyone-even-use-all-these-darn-cpu-instructions/
on “Analysis: more than 16 cores may well be pointless”