On 2008 Aug 28, at 20:45, Adrian Hey wrote:
Lennart Augustsson wrote:
If Haskell had always taken the pragmatic path of adding what seems easiest and most in line with imperative practice it would not be the language it is today. It would be Perl, ML, or Java. The Haskell philosophy has always been to stick it out until someone comes up with the right solution to a problem rather than picking some easy way out.
BTW, unsafePerformIO seems quite pragmatic and easy to me, so let's not get too snobby about this. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
It's anything but easy; there are specific rules you need to follow, including use of certain compiler pragmas, to insure it works properly. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH