Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages -> cabbages

Hi Jason On 22 Sep 2009, at 10:04, Jason Dusek wrote:

2009/09/21 Conor McBride :

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...or have unpleasant memories of being made to eat sulphurous overboiled cabbage on pain of no pudding.

Well, maybe the Cabal cabbages are Napa cabbages or red cabbages or pickled cabbages or Savoy cabbages?

Mmm. Kimchi!

It is too bad, really, that a wholesome vegetable -- good raw or pickled or in little salady things like coleslaw -- finds itself used as a disincentive.

I quite agree. Despite the best efforts of school kitchens, I remain stubbornly enthusiastic for the humble cabbage. In fact, I rather think I'll fetch one for my dinner. I'm just suggesting that the marketing department consider the variety of connotations and suggestions the term evokes before adopting it: legendary backfirings abound (the Spanish sales failure of a car called the "nova", for example). And what disturbs me is just how scarily spot-on the wholesome vegetable metaphor turns out to be. The time has come... Conor