On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 19:27 +0100, Iain Barnett wrote: > On 10 Oct 2008, at 7:05 pm, Jonathan Cast wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 19:08 +0100, Iain Barnett wrote: > > > In Haskell it is. > > > > Parsec makes recursive descent parsers as easy to use in Haskell as > > regexps are in Perl. No reason not to expose newcomers to Haskell to > > the thing it does best. > > > > jcc > > > > > > Regex tends to come after things like basic I/O, even in Perl.
Why would I want to do I/O, when I don't know how to do anything interesting with the input yet, or how to generate interesting output? I think the `I/O comes first' attitude is *precisely* the difference between mainstream programmers and Haskellers. The goal should be to create more Haskellers, not just more people whose code happens to be accepted by GHC. > I've > got a Haskell book here (Hutton, 170 pages) that doesn't even mention > how to open a file! That short, and you expect minor features like that (that not every program even needs) to be squeezed in? jcc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe