Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: More problems [Tetris]

On 22 Nov 2007, at 11:16 AM, Andrew Coppin wrote:

Aaron Denney wrote:

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On 2007-11-21, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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In short, lots of Haskell-related things seem to be extremely Unix-centric and downright unfriendly towards anybody trying to set things up on Windows. If I didn't already know a bit about Unix, I'd be *really* stuck!

I'd say, rather, that windows is unfriendly towards open and working common standards.

Or you could say that Windows *is* a "common standard". (I stop short of "working".) But it's unclear where such circular semantic fidgetting gets us. ;-)

Or you could say that focusing on ‘standards’ is a good way to side- step the issue of whether those standards are technically sound or not; and that if the combination of Windows and Haskell is technically unsound, there are four possibilities: (0) Windows and Haskell are both themselves technically unsound; (1) Windows is technically unsound, and Windows + Haskell incorporates this unsoundness; (2) Haskell is technically unsound, and Windows + Haskell incorporates this unsoundness; or (3) Windows and Haskell are both technically sound, but in incompatible ways. I lean towards (1), naturally. But this doesn't answer the question of whether the lowest-cost solution is to fix Windows or work around it, of course. jcc