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bulio · Sep 10th, 2007, 9:27 PM

A pretty cool read!

If programming languages were cars...

My favorite:

Quote:

Haskell is not really a car; it's an abstract machine in which you give a detailed description of what the process of driving would be like if you were to do it. You have to put the abstract machine inside another (concrete) machine in order to actually do any driving. You're not supposed to ask how the concrete machine works. There is also a way to take multiple abstract machines and make a single abstract machine, which you can then give to the concrete machine to make multiple trips one after another.

DaWei · Sep 10th, 2007, 9:52 PM

I came out of the pub one night and saw seven of my abstract machines, but I couldn't find the concrete one. I had to settle for crawling down the gutter.

Dameon · Sep 10th, 2007, 10:34 PM

Concrete cars are overrated in my experience.

Indigno · Sep 15th, 2007, 10:35 PM

ActionScript: Nobody really knows how to drive this car, yet there are thousands of them out there.

Sep 10th, 2007, 9:52 PM	#2
DaWei Resident Grouch Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6,453 Rep Power: 10	I came out of the pub one night and saw seven of my abstract machines, but I couldn't find the concrete one. I had to settle for crawling down the gutter. __________________ Abstraction doesn't make it impossible to write bad code; it makes it possible to write superior code. Contributor's Corner: Grumpy on C++ Exceptions DaWei on Pointers

Sep 10th, 2007, 10:34 PM	#3
Dameon Troll Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 732 Rep Power: 4	Concrete cars are overrated in my experience. __________________ MD5(sig) = bcef75433db02e9ad9bf81d6f7c5c270 Last edited by Dameon; Sep 10th, 2007 at 11:05 PM.

Sep 15th, 2007, 10:35 PM	#4
Indigno Professional Programmer Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Anywhere non-productive Posts: 267 Rep Power: 0	ActionScript: Nobody really knows how to drive this car, yet there are thousands of them out there. __________________ Perhaps I should have a sticky topic for all of the times I "return" to this forum instead of a new one every time.

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