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20:10:21
drmeister
Dammit - why do people just drop in for 7 minutes, ask a question and then disappear?
22:31:40
drmeister
A person with the ID Selwyn dropped in to ask a question about exposing C++ libraries and my broken demo for that. I need to put some time into it.
22:32:41
drmeister
He asked that question on IRC at exactly the same time I had an undergraduate CS student in my office who will be working with me this summer and we were talking about exposing scientific libraries within Clasp.
22:50:36
cracauer
Always good to see them at the same time so that you can be sure they are not aliases :-)
22:50:59
cracauer
My FreeBSD changes seem to work on Linux and OSX. I'll put together a pull request tomorrow.
3:54:02
beach
It is the only documentation I have ever seen of an experiment to compare the productivity of different programming languages.
6:14:35
phoe
Do you mean https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/karkare/courses/2010/cs653/Papers/hudak_haskell_sw_prototype.pdf ?
6:17:44
beach
They basically conclude that Haskell is great and the timing for "relational Lisp" is weird and can't be trusted.
6:19:19
beach
I interpret the result like this: Any project leader who does not take into account the possibility that there might be a huge difference in productivity of different languages (for the project at hand) should be fired. They should especially take into account the savings of a productivity gain vs the cost of training or hiring staff.