[Haskell-cafe] Re: the problem of design by negation

2009-05-25 Thread Achim Schneider
Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote: I gather that some people are terribly uncomfortable without certainty. If you take away their certainty, they demand an immediate replacement! This is a very important observation, vast areas of human psychology can be explained in terms of feeling

[Haskell-cafe] Re: the problem of design by negation

2009-05-25 Thread Achim Schneider
Michael Mossey m...@alumni.caltech.edu wrote: Based on a previous reply, I think some people think this sounds like vapid cheerleading, but I think you would agree with me that life (and software) always offers more possibilities when we engage our imagination with hope and energy, not giving