21 Dec
2005
21 Dec
'05
12:16 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Udo Stenzel wrote: [... re pitfalls of IO for the beginner ]
Here's another one: I've heard a fellow claim, Haskell is basically unsuitable to implement a compiler, because Haskell is weak at IO and "everything needs IO, the lexer, the preprocessor, the parser, the pretty-printer, ..." Can you imagine what convoluted mess he would write if he learned IO first?
I wouldn't be too worried. If these things really must be learned in some prescribed order, then we're all doomed - who here learned Haskell as their first programming language? Meanwhile, that fellow evidently didn't write any compiler in Haskell at all. Better a C++ program than a Haskell program that offends you? Donn Cave, donn@drizzle.com