On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:53:05PM -0700, Michael Vanier wrote:
For what it's worth, the nature of Haskell is such that you do (at least currently) have to spend a lot of time reading research papers to understand what's going on. Maybe that will change sometime, but probably not soon. This ties in to the open-endedness of Haskell; I sometimes think that really understanding all of Haskell is like really understanding all of mathematics. This is frustrating, but it's also what makes the language so rewarding. I guess what I'm saying is: get used to it, it's not so bad.
At AngloHaskell, one of Phillipa's slides referred to Haskell as a "programming language theory gateway drug" - and was clearly of the opinion that this was A Good Thing. -- Andy Gimblett Computer Science Department University of Wales Swansea http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csandy/