On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 19:27 +0100, Iain Barnett wrote:
On 10 Oct 2008, at 7:05 pm, Jonathan Cast wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 19:08 +0100, Iain Barnett wrote:
In Haskell it is.
Parsec makes recursive descent parsers as easy to use in Haskell as regexps are in Perl. No reason not to expose newcomers to Haskell to the thing it does best.
jcc
Regex tends to come after things like basic I/O, even in Perl.
Why would I want to do I/O, when I don't know how to do anything interesting with the input yet, or how to generate interesting output? I think the `I/O comes first' attitude is *precisely* the difference between mainstream programmers and Haskellers. The goal should be to create more Haskellers, not just more people whose code happens to be accepted by GHC.
I've got a Haskell book here (Hutton, 170 pages) that doesn't even mention how to open a file!
That short, and you expect minor features like that (that not every program even needs) to be squeezed in? jcc