[Haskell-cafe] Re: O LANGUAGE DESIGNER, REMEMBER THE POOR USER

2009-04-17 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:04:43 -0500, Matt Morrow moonpa...@gmail.com wrote: This is interesting (and from 1990): http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/655bb7bbd0fd8586 (Not sure if this is well-known. It seems like it either is, or it should be. Either way, I just stumbled

[Haskell-cafe] Re: O LANGUAGE DESIGNER, REMEMBER THE POOR USER

2009-04-16 Thread Matt Morrow
Here are some choice-quotes that are one of {insightful, controversial, arguable}: Starting with my favorite quote ;): The ability to operate on the program as data is basic to the provision of many desirable utilities, e.g. the Boyer-Moore theorem prover, and the program transformation work