On Oct 1, 2008, at 15:51 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
wman wrote:
Long story short, I promised him a one-liner to "show the power and beauty of Haskell".
(writeFile "output.csv") =<< (liftM printCSV $ liftM (map updateLine) $ parseCSVFromFile "input.csv")
Is there room for improvement ?
Um... Does anybody else find it interesting that we are "showing the beauty of Haskell" by attempting to construct the most terse, cryptic, unmaintainable tangle of point-free code that the combined mindpower of the entire mailing list can produce?
To a certain geek mindset, that *is* the power and beauty. (Then again, that's the mindset that publishes incomprehensible JAPHs in their .signature files.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH