Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created

[Alexis]

Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:

> Alexis <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > For those thinking "But Haskell is just an academic
> > programming language!", see:
> >
> > https://github.com/commercialhaskell/commercialhaskell
>
> It seems to me that that page is not what you think.

It seems to me to be a page of organisations and individuals that 
have
an interest in using Haskell in a commercial setting. But i guess 
the
argument could be made: "They might be /interested/ in doing so, 
but
that doesn't mean they're /actually/ doing so." Okay:

https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry

And in terms of writing an /editor/ in a mutability-discouraging
context, there's Yi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_(editor)

i'm only linking to these things to demonstrate that it's possible 
to
write 'real-world' software in a context where global mutable 
state is
discouraged, in order to counter the idea that such an approach is
/necessarily/ impractical. That's all; nothing more than 
that. Richard
has said that the GNU Project does not accept the premise that 
side
effects are bad, and i respect that position.

> I like the idea of immutability but...
>
> > > Why would we want to?
> >
> > http://www.lispcast.com/the-world-is-mutable
>
> ... this is the poorest and most ridiculous defense of 
> immutability
> I've ever read. It makes me think that the author does not 
> understand
> what it is about. But then I realized that the article is just a 
> silly
> advert for some product sold by the author.
>
> Please do not spam this mailing list.

Okay, i'm sorry. i'll be much more careful about any links i post 
in the
future.


Alexis.