I can't agree with your point about Haskell being (just) a prototype language (assuming that's what
you meant). If that's the case, it won't last very long. Languages need to be something you can
write real, practical applications in. Fortunately, Haskell isn't just a prototype language. I'm
running a Haskell program (xmonad) every minute I'm working on my computer, and it's better than the
C program (ion) that it replaced (with a code base about 1/40th the size). I'm sure Haskell isn't
suitable for all application domains yet, but there's plenty of domains in which it can make its
mark, and the frontier is going to keep getting pushed back.
Mike
Hugh Perkins wrote:
On 8/9/07, *peterv* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
IMHO and being a newbie having 20 years of professional C/C++/C#
experience but hardly any Haskell experience, I agree with this… I
find the monad syntax very confusing, because it looks so much like
imperative code, but it isn't. Personally I also liked the
Concurrent Clean approach, although this also introduced extra
syntax for the compiler, while 'cmd1 >>= \x…' does not. You have
to type more, but you see much clearer what is going on.
Yeah, I kind of agree too. The only way I figured out sortof how to use
Monads was to write everything out in >>= syntax. It was longer and
uglier, but it made more sense.
That said, I sortof see Haskell as a prototype language, whose good
points will be added into other languages. Every program needs to have
a prototype, and Haskell is that.
So, whilst I'm tempted to add: an easy language needs to have only a
single way of doing anything, so throwing away the "do" syntax makes the
language easier by reducing the number of things to learn, actually for
a prototype language, the rule is probably "anything goes", and then the
best ideas get added to the non-prototype language later on.
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