On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, apfelmus wrote: > More specifically, "fact" means something that you can easily check > yourself. "Robust"/"maintainable"/"testable" code are things you _can't_ > easily check yourself without already learning the language.
+1 > But "shorter code" is a fact you can easily check, for instance with > quicksort as example. In fact, "short code" is the reason why I picked > up Haskell. Back then, I was given the task to calculate some sequence > of numbers which I did in one page of C code. So far so good, but when I > asked the task assigner about his solution, he responded: "Ah, this > problem, that's 1 line in Haskell. Well, 2 lines if the terminal is too > small." Ah, a Haskell code contribution to the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
