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Ron Pressler - Pull Push: Please stop polluting our imperative languages with pure concepts-Curry On

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What it is

Ron Pressler's Curry On 2015 talk arguing that imperative languages should not be polluted with pure functional concepts like monads. He favors simple blocking code over non-blocking styles.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as the case for blocking code and virtual threads over monads and async/await.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “one of my recent favorite videos generally on this topic has been from Curry On conference”

    Practical differences between monads and imperative control flow

    elcritch, 2015-11 · Recommendation · in “TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence”

  2. “I actually like what talks like these have to say”

    Talk on not over-relying on mathematical purity for correctness

    apta, 2019-06 · Recommendation · in “Go proposal: Leave “if err != nil” alone?”

  3. “Writing single-threaded blocking code is far easier for most people”

    Case for simple blocking code over non-blocking IO styles

    fzeindl, 2024-07 · Recommendation · in “Java Virtual Threads: A Case Study”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: monads, async await, virtual threads, blocking code, language design

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