Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Tutorial uploaded

Donn Cave wrote:

Meanwhile, that fellow evidently didn't write any compiler in Haskell at all. Better a C++ program than a Haskell program that offends you?

Oh no, he actually wrote something disgusting built mostly out of regexes in Perl. I don't think it even works, and I don't think I could have convinced him to Do The Right Thing in whatever language. But that's besides the point. The conviction that a parser or lexer or prettyprinter means IO is simply wrong, and imho a tutorial should show how much is purely functionally possible before introducing control flow, mutable variables and all the other ugliness. It's more productive this way. Udo. -- Slous' Contention: If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it.