Reflections on college.

[Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party]

[QUOTE=Derleth]

I suppose I’m needlessly tying laziness with currying, but IME that’s how it tends to work: Haskell holds both laziness and currying sacred, and Lisp has neither without clever macros to explicitly construct the chain of functions.

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Strictness and laziness in FPL’s corresponds to call-by-value and call-by-name in reduction strategies for the lambda calculus, that’s all. It would simply be a small change in the reduction strategy to make SML lazy. Currying and laziness are two unrelated concepts.

[Airman_Doors_USAF]

@twickster

After justifying his OP with this:

Airman hasn’t been back to the thread. Does it seem odd to anyone else that someone who brags that his analytic and communication skills were utterly unimproved by his college experience wouldn’t want to participate in this debate?

Oh, wait, never mind.

Actually, I was. While we’re talking about analytical ability, that wasn’t my last post to this thread. I’m terribly sorry that I didn’t respond on your timetable, I’ll consider your feelings thoroughly the next time I contemplate doing anything.

I don’t recall this being a debate, either. I said my peace and I read the responses, some of which have perfectly salient points that I might not have considered previously. Isn’t that enough?

[twickster]

@Airman_Doors_USAF

I said my peace and I read the responses, some of which have perfectly salient points that I might not have considered previously. Isn’t that enough?

Seems like you might be getting more out of this thread than your college education, then. Good for you!

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

@Airman_Doors_USAF

There’s no need to apologize. My OP was somewhat provocative.

I assumed (incorrectly, as usual) that people would recognize the personal nature of what I said by the title. Why would my reflections have any particular relevance to anybody else’s?

Well, you confine yourself to saying that YOUR college education was worthless, you said “university” or “college” was, in the general sense.