Re: [Haskell-cafe] A hell of a question

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 17:14 -0800, Jason Dusek wrote:

Andrzej Jaworski wrote:

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First let me disassociate Haskell from Taoism which to may taste has left us in an unhealthy climate. It suffices to say that Taoism is a school of clever trics and cute aphorisms but without the slightest attempt to explain or generalize let alone produce an abstract idea or a system. That is why its wisdom is non transferable in spite of majority of humans desending from it.

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Thus it is in practical arts -- Chinese medicine, Taiji, strategy -- that one comes to appreciate the Way and its Power.

But nonetheless, Haskell is not a practical art, no more than theoretical physics or abstract algebra. jcc