Moreover, functional programming makes it easy to have much more state than imperative programming, namely state over *continuous* time. The temporally discrete time imposed by the imperative model is pretty puny in comparison. Continuous (or "resolution-independent") time has the same advantages as continuous space: resource-adaptive, scalable, transformable.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2007 4:11 PM, Lennart Augustsson <<a href="mailto:lennart@augustsson.net">lennart@augustsson.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I implemented Tetris in LML long before Haskell existed.<br>It was text based, but looked good with a custom font. :)<br><br>Haskell has no problem with state, it's just explicit.<br><font color="#888888"><br> -- Lennart
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On Nov 19, 2007 9:25 PM, Andrew Coppin <<a href="mailto:andrewcoppin@btinternet.com" target="_blank">andrewcoppin@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you were going to implement Tetris in Haskell, how would you do it?<br><br>(For that matter, has anybody already *done* it? It would probably make<br>a nice example program...)<br><br>I'm particularly interested to know
<br><br>1. How exactly would you do the graphical components? (Presumably<br>there's some deep trickery with Gtk2hs that can draw free-form stuff<br>like this.)<br><br>2. How do you implement a program that is fundamentally about state
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