On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Andrzej Jaworski <himself@poczta.nom.pl> wrote:
I just want to say Hello to let you know that there are some serious entities watching you besides
monads and FBI:-)
There has been a hell of a discussion recently about logos, languages and religion and I want to add
to this.
First let me disassociate Haskell from Taoism which to may taste has left us in an unhealthy climate.
It suffices to say that Taoism is a school of clever trics and cute aphorisms but without the
slightest attempt to explain or generalize let alone produce an abstract idea or a system. That is
why its wisdom is non transferable in spite of majority of humans desending from it. Haskell on the
contrary is a minority school that implements abstract ideas for problem solving in the most
transferable way to date, so that other languages look into it for their share. But don't worry,
thay will choke becouse it is them who practice Taoizm. Playing too many tricks will eventually
trick them, even if some are powerful enough to brainwash dicent professors to preach
interoperability or the like. Every viable complexity needs a single underlying concept to survive,
including you and the universe. Microsoft and the like excluding;-)
Haskell has all that: consistency, transparency and self-contained concept.