On Sun, 18 May 2003 16:00:40 +0200
Alain Cremieux
Hi, If I may contribute to the language definitions (http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/language/index.htm), concerning *Haskell* :
You shoot yourself in the foot. The gun fires half an hour later (lazy evaluation), blows your hand instead of your foot (polymorphism), and leaves you in a state of total amnesia (memory leaks).
Memory leaks are when you remember something far longer than you need to and that's because you need to remember to load the gun before you fire it, but you don't do that until immediately before you need to shoot yourself in the foot, of course, that forces you to go to the store and buy the bullets, and of course, then you find out that you are out of vehicles as you've driven half-way to the grocer's but haven't finished because you haven't been hungry yet, halfway to the hardware shop for tools but nothing requires fixing yet, and halfway to the post-office but you haven't written the letter yet.