On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:25 -0700, John A. De Goes wrote:
No, I hate C and will never use it again in my entire life unless forced to at the point of a gun.
Why? Its libraries are far better, its editors are far better [1], its compilers are far better, its tool support is far better, it's incomparably superior in every possible way to Haskell. Except the relatively narrow criterion of the *language itself*. Maybe making languages better is a worthwile pursuit, then? Or do you still think languages should be frozen in time[2] so the tools, compilers, editors, libraries, etc. can undergo vast improvements? jcc [1] They're not; IDEs are for losers [2] For the record: I'd be content to see a frozen production language, like Haskell, frozen in time; as long there's a credible other evolveable language --- preferably one with zero backward-compatibility requirements w.r.t. Haskell 98 or current or past GHC. Re-designing a purely function research language from the ground up would be neat --- but then it wouldn't be Haskell at all, and I wouldn't use Haskell, I'd use the new language. If I thought I could realistically leave the Haskell community, I wouldn't be nearly so opposed to Haskell's continued slide into practicality.