
2009/3/24 Peter Verswyvelen
This strategy is doomed to failure, unfortunately.
So it is the good strategy, because Haskell's slogan is "avoid success at all cost" :-)
IN THE YEAR 1987, WAR WAS BEGINNING BIG, IMPERATIVE SOFTWARE BEHEMOTHS CLASHED IN A STATE OF IMPURITY UNDER THE SHADOW OF FEAR AND DOUBT, COLONY BY COLONY FELL INTO TYPELESS ANARCHY WHOLE PLANETS WERE SCROUNGED BY TERRIBLE SEGFAULTS THE HUNGER FOR A NEW PARADIGM WAS GNAWING AT THE ROOTS OF THE CIVILIZED UNIVERSE MEANWHILE, IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY, A SMALL GROUP OF LAZY FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMERS CREATED A LANGUAGE IT WAS OUR LAST, BEST HOPE TO AVOID SUCCESS AT ALL COST... IT FAILED IT EVOLVED THERE ARE 8,581 IMPLEMENTATIONS SUPPORTING 935,842,712 EXTENSIONS THEY LOOK AND FEEL ... FUNCTIONAL SOME ARE PROGRAMMED TO THINK THAT THEY AREN'T IMPERATIVE AT ALL AT LEAST ONE IS ACTUALLY USED ONCE, IT HAD BEEN OUR LAST, BEST HOPE TO AVOID SUCCESS IN THE YEAR 2009, IT BECAME SOMETHING GREATER: OUR LAST, BEST HOPE FOR BLASTING THE INFERIOR LANGUAGES OUT OF THE SKY (WITH LAZY CLASS) YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAP YOUR BIND