Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Monad.Reader 8: Haskell, the new C++

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 23:36 +0000, Aaron Denney wrote:

On 2007-09-12, Don Stewart wrote:

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I've been told that functional dependencies are old hat and there is now something better. I suspect that "better" here means "worse".

Better here means "better" -- a functional language on the type system, to type a functional language on the value level.

Meh. I prefer functional languages for general problems, but as type-checking is a rather specific problem, I don't see why logic programming isn't more appropriate.

Type systems are the new general purpose programming languages.