In fairness to John, his trying really hard to avoid causing offense might having something to do with the fact that he just had a couple dozen or so e-mails attacking him personally the last time he tried asking questions about Haskell and comparing it to O'Caml.
I have to confess that I myself had thought at the time that he was being a troll --- i.e., in this case a person who shows up on a mailing list of fans of a language and attacks it just to create a fuss --- since he had not only pointed out reasons why the language is flawed (which is not in itself unreasonable, as long as it is being done in a constructive manner), but asked us to prove that it *wasn't* flawed, and said things that implied that we only liked it because we had never seriously looked at any other language. However, his recent e-mails on this have shown a serious willingness to really try to understand more about Haskell. Thus, perhaps there may have simply been a miscommunication/misunderstanding earlier. Cheers, Greg On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:15 PM, John D. Earle <[email protected]> wrote: > To elaborate there is another language that is also a functional language. I > won't mention the name so as not to offend anyone. It too is effect free, > that is what makes it functional and it is a functional language in the true > sense of the term, but it is not effect free in the sense that Haskell is > effect free. This other language is effect free in every practical sense > whereas Haskell is effect free in a strict sense. > > Why would anyone be offended? I'd prefer if you tried to be clear about what > you mean, rather than intentionally obscure your points to avoid causing > offence. Be specific. What language? How is it different than Haskell w.r.t. > purity? > > -- > Sebastian Sylvan > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
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