10 Oct
2008
10 Oct
'08
7:13 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:29:54PM -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote:
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?
Uh... yes. Opening and closing files, command-line parsing, etc -- needed by almost every program. Aside from some very simple stdin-to-stdout filters, it is difficult to imagine a program where you don't need to open a file!