On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Andrew Coppin
(Also, "coroutines"? Seriously? That's hardly an obscure term in programming circles.)
Well now, I'm curios. I've been writing computer programs since I was 9 years old. I hold a diploma *and* an honours degree in computer science. And I have never even *heard* of a coroutine. To this day I still don't know what it means. I rather suspect I'm not the only "programmer" on earth who finds themselves in this position. ;-)
I read about coroutines the first time a good number of years ago in "Programming in Modula-2" by Niklaus Wirth. It's true that they have fallen out of favor somewhat, but neither the concept nor the name are exclusive to Haskell. The fact is that programming is a technical endeavor, and as any other technical field, it needs jargon. Of course, it's always possible to overuse jargon, but I seriously don't know why anyone should be afraid of a name like "Existential Quantification". I understand some people are afraid of such a name, but it shouldn't be so. Well, this is getting back to Monads x WarmFuzzyThings... -- []s, Andrei Formiga