Derek Elkins wrote:
> A shorter and lighter and and also interesting and entertaining read is:
>
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/haskell-retrospective/index.htm
Just read it, quoting:
`Tony Hoare’s comment: “I fear that Haskell is doomed to succeed”`
LOL! Very good stuff
If Haskell wasn't pure, I would not spent so much time trying to bend my
over-imperative mind to it. I had it with impure languages, way to
tricky. Those languages were nice when I was young & reckless :)
But I'm amazed that impure (albeit strong) languages like LISP and
Scheme are still used for projects... I mean, in Scheme you can "set!"
the addition operator to become a multiplication operator at runtime,
modifying global behavior... Now that's a side effect, C/C++ is nothing
compared to that! So I guess that with such great power comes great
responsibility?
Peter
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