Re: [Haskell-cafe] I read somewhere that for 90% of a wide class of computing problems, you only need 10% of the source code in Haskell, that you would in an imperative language.

Andrew Coppin said:

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Sure. But what is a computer program?

then Richard O'Keefe said:

A computer program, in short, is *whatever we want it to be*. (Within reasonable limits.)

I agree with Richard's conclusion.

From where I sit, the critical point is that, unless you're breadboarding, programming is working in the abstract, and we choose our abstractions. There's a strong tradition of sequential imperative programming, but that's as far as it goes.

John