Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Haskell a Keynesian language?

2006-10-12 Thread David F. Place
It often seems to me that the Wildeian dichotomy of "charming" vs. "tedious" applies especially well to programming languages. On Oct 12, 2006, at 5:02 PM, mvanier wrote: I prefer the terms "awesome" and "crappy", respectively, but sure, whatever works for you ;-) Mike --

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Haskell a Keynesian language?

2006-10-12 Thread mvanier
I prefer the terms "awesome" and "crappy", respectively, but sure, whatever works for you ;-) Mike Henning Thielemann wrote: Here is another approach of questionable classification of languages. :-) A lazy functional program is demand driven, an imperative program is supply driven. That is,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Haskell a Keynesian language?

2006-10-12 Thread Albert Lai
Henning Thielemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is another approach of questionable classification of languages. :-) > > A lazy functional program is demand driven, an imperative program is > supply driven. > So is Haskell a Keynesian language and C++ a Say language? Great, now we can t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Haskell a Keynesian language?

2006-10-12 Thread Johan Tibell
This is certainly proof that you can abuse economics in any context! ;) Or perhaps that economics can be used to abuse anything... - Johan Tibell On 10/12/06, Henning Thielemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is another approach of questionable classification of languages. :-) A lazy functi