Simon Peyton-Jones
Respect, guys, please.
Yes. Much as I enjoy the mangling of Shakespeare (finally some use out of that Eng.Lit. class all those years ago), I worry that this will finally be the thread that launched a thousand replies and burned the bottomless archives of the Haskell Café. Thus I humbly submit the following proposal for the FAQ: Q: Somebody made an obviously counterfactual statement implying Haskell is inferior to some lesser language (one that only a moron would use anyway). Although I know we try to keep things civil around here, this person is obviously doing this on purpose to provoke us, and as a responsible citizen of this forum, I shall be forced to go against the normal comme-il-faut (and my better judgement) and publicly humiliate him or her, just like he or she wants me to. How should I best go about it? A: Words are like sunrays, and each word or ray burns hotter when focused and terse And if you have nothing at all nice nice to say make sure that you say it in verse If somebody argues in endless recursion you'll find that it irks you at times So either give helpful advice for conversion or produce your harassment in rhymes Trees are more lovely than poems, it's true and words can burn hotter than wood Do you really have nothing else better to do? Then at least try to make it /sound/ good. -k (Who has lots of better things to do, unfortunately) -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants