
Ketil Malde
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
writes: Don't worry, my friend. Haskell is lazy, so there is no problem in "handling" those infinite modules. It will just take you an infinite amount of time before you get any money from such a work. But this is a general problem elsewhere as well.
I guess you must be thinking of Haskell being increasingly used in banks? It must have been some bank manager who, after hiring one too many Haskell programmers, invented a scheme that would generate an infinite amount of money. He didn't realize before it was too late that the actual value of the scheme would be bottom...
See also: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Humor/Enron -- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Janis Voigtländer http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~jv/ mailto:jv@iai.uni-bonn.de