Re: [Haskell-cafe] Erlang's module discussion

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 13:34, Ketil Malde wrote:

Tom Murphy writes:

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     Before you dismiss it as crazy, know that the topic was brought up by Joe Armstrong

Being brilliant doesn't mean the absence of mental bad hair days, but merely that they happen more rarely than for the rest of us. :-)

I was kinda angling for "brilliant idea, unfortunately only usable by brilliant people". Most of us would be lost in such a system, and wait until you see what kind of namespace grows out of that setup's Hackage-equivalent because most programmers simply don't have the extremely high level of discipline and organization needed to make it work.