Re: simplicity and seriousness and efficiency

1997-08-21 Thread Zooko Journeyman
nting utilities, string-manipulation utilities, unsorted arrays and so forth. I hope that my contributions to this forum are helpful. My understanding of Haskell is woefully primitive, but since the discussion had turned to "making it useful for the world's programmers" I thought my perspective might be useful. Regards, Zooko

simplicity and seriousness

1997-08-21 Thread Zooko Journeyman
one saying "We need to add all these features in order to make Haskell useful for serious programming!". That may well be true, depending on what the features actually are, but it strikes me as ironic since I came here in search of "fewer features, for serious programming". :-) Regards, Zooko, Journeyman Hacker