Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why Perl is more learnable than Haskell

On Apr 11, 2007, at 23:10 , kynn wrote:

rather pragmatic. I have not been able to find enough support in Haskell for everyday tasks (e.g. read a stream from a socket; parse it into a simple

The stuff in Network (not Network.Socket) gives you a Handle, which you can treat more or less like any other Haskell Handle (filehandle). Network.Socket should be reserved for when you need to work at a really low level. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH