Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > Invisible escreveu:
> >> You KNOW you've been using Haskell too long when...
> >>
> >>>
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726391.500-is-time-an-illusion.html?full=true
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ...you read about physics and start thinking about monads. o_O
> >
> > Well, Haskell is stateless, so time and sequencing of flow don't really
> > matter.  Except when doing any useful IO that is. :P
>
> Did you read the article?  For that matter, did you even read the URL? :-)

Sure, I read it days ago.  Very interesting, though the concept is not something
truly new:  Feynman's Sum over paths is, I think, another take on the subject of
how to look at reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum-over-paths

Or, in Douglas Adams words, "the whole sort of general mish-mash":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Sort_of_General_Mish_Mash#Whole_Sort_of_General_Mish_Mash

But then Andrew came up with a Haskell plug and I fell for it. :)

Post a reply to this message