Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: New syntax for Haskell

I've long been interested in a scripting language designed to be spoken. Not interested enough to go about making it happen... but the idea is fascinating and possibly useful. On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Andreas Abel wrote:

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+1

Cucumber seems to be great if you mainly want to read your code over the telephone, distribute it via national radio broadcast, or dictate it to your secretary or your voice recognition software. You can program thus without having to use you fingers. You can lie on your back on your sofa, close your eyes, and utter your programs...

We could have blind Haskell/Cucumber programming contests...

Tons of new possiblilities...

Strongly support this proposal. ;-)

Andreas

On 2013-09-10 22:57, Artyom Kazak wrote:

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:20:26 +0400, Thiago Negri wrote:

I hope these jokes do not cause people to be afraid to post new ideas.

Agreed. I would also like to clarify that my message was much more a joke on the incomprehensibility of legal acts than on the original proposal.

By the way, I am pretty impressed with this piece of Cucumber description/code:

Scenario: Mislav creates a valid task with an upload When I go to the "Awesome Ruby Yahh" task list page of the "Ruby Rockstars" project When I follow "+ Add Task" And I fill in "Task title" with "Ohhh upload" And I follow "Attachment" When I attach the file "features/support/sample_files/dragon.jpg" to "upload_file" And I press "Add Task" And I wait for 1 second And I should see "Ohhh upload" as a task name

I was much more sceptical when I had only seen the example in Niklas’s message. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing listHaskell-Cafe@haskell.orghttp://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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