18 Jun
2010
18 Jun
'10
1:28 p.m.
Excerpts from Bryan O'Sullivan's message of Fri Jun 18 13:16:58 -0400 2010:
I'm inclined to disagree. It's precisely when the code is in a state of constant upheaval that I want the type system to be pointing out my dumb errors.
In my experience, the type system has forced me to care about thing that I don't want to care about (yet). It's a different mindset: in the words of the prototyper: being first is valued over being correct. This does mean that Haskell forces you to write long-term maintainable code from the get-go, yes. :-) Cheers, Edward