On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:43:38 -0400, "John D. Ramsdell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My son's nickname is Rama, so let me adopt it. I am a functional >programmer, even when I use languages such as C. Scheme facilitated >my development into a functional programmer, however, I appreciate the >benefits of pure function programming at times. Yet when I use >Haskell, I hear reminders of my Scheme past cast in the music of >Santana. The words I hear are set to "Eval Ways": > >You've got to change your evil ways... Rama >Before I stop respecting you. >You've got to change... Rama >And every word that I say, it's true. >You use strange syntax and typing >And offset rules >You don't mutate locations >You use strange do's >This can't go on... >Lord knows you got to change. > >John Haskell poetry? Here is my Scheme -> Haskell story; since you have written your story as a poem, I have written mine, in the style of Japanese court poetry, as a poem in reply: Ode from a Haskeller to a Schemer Recursion was my curse, 'Till mapping came to fame, Parens to tail-recurse, Fade, monads are to blame. Let, let*, or letrec? They were my bar and foo. Now, monads have my neck: What shall there be to do? Recurse or iterate? The processes, too late! To map, fold, or filter: That is the question, sir. In Scheme, I threw a fit: Eval: how to write it? In Haskell, no more wait: Reactive-animate! -- by Benjamin L. Russell, July 7, 2008 (Tokyo time) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
