Re: On Haskell and Freedom

2000-02-09 Thread Juergen Pfitzenmaier
Julian Assange wrote: > Well and good, but without fear and hope there is no motivation to do > anything. Which is quite apt for a body in the ground, but for upright > specimens such philosophical sentiment leads to stagnation. No, not true. Look into philosophy, theology,... there are other thi

Re: On Haskell and Freedom

2000-02-08 Thread Julian Assange
Jerzy Karczmarczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The tombstone of Nicos Kazantzakis (The Last Temptation of Christ) > has the following inscription: > > I hope for nothing. > I fear nothing. > I am FREE. > > Perhaps this is a tiny bit closer to my personal perception of > freedom

Re: On Haskell and Freedom

2000-01-14 Thread Jan Skibinski
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Michael T. Richter wrote: > At 06:48 AM 1/13/00 , Jerzy wrote: > > Modifying source codes of your development tools is clearly a > > pathology if not a perversion. It diverts you from your principal > > task which should *exploit* those tools. > > I'm glad to finally find

Re: On Haskell and Freedom

2000-01-14 Thread Michael T. Richter
At 06:48 AM 1/13/00 , you wrote: > Modifying source codes of your development tools is clearly a > pathology if not a perversion. It diverts you from your principal > task which should *exploit* those tools. I'm glad to finally find someone saying this in this forum. I was very close to unsubsc

Re: On Haskell and Freedom

2000-01-14 Thread Charles Hixson
"Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" wrote: > /* snip */ > You are completely and utterly missing the point. Or should > I say, you are confusing it. Ian is not talking about moral > here (moral arguments can be made, but he obviously didn't > in the text you quoted) - he is talking about the practical

Re: On Haskell and Freedom

2000-01-13 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Jerzy Karczmarczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > Ian Jackson continues the discussion on Haskell/Clean issue, and > says about the possibility to modify the sources: > > > We're programmers here, aren't we ? Modifying source code is > > what we do. If I encounter a bug in software I'm using I