[Haskell-cafe] Re: Difference lists and ShowS

ajb@spamcop.net wrote:

G'day all.

Quoting Achim Schneider :

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But you really need one with 5 differently-sized blades plus three spezialized carving blades, an USB stick, microscope, 13 kinds of torx, imbus etc drivers each, a tv set (analogue/digital) with unfoldable touchscreen, at least 3-band GSM and WiFi connectivity, hydraulic car jack and chain saw to award it with the term egg-laying woolmilkpig.

So a better translation into British engineering language might be "Heath Robinson"?

Not really. To give you the perfect cs example, take a look at emacs: eight megabytes and continuous swapping, a whole OS with any app and library you could ever dream of, but not one decent editor. See, on the one hand that beast is every farmer's dream, but then you can't butcher the pig 'cos you want to have its milk, wool and eggs.. http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/creeping-featuritis.html is the associated plague. Outlook reminds me of it, too: I spend half a paid hour configuring it, changing everything, from default message format to quote behaviour and similar. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.