[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tim Sweeney (the gamer)

Achim Schneider wrote:

The surest thing to make people switch is to make them not aware of it, i.e. make things look exactly like in C, with incremental updates of the same variable and everything, while still retaining a purely functional semantic under the hood.

I guess that's why success has to be avoided at all cost.

But, still, I bet people would like to see Warning: Statements without effect: "c <- return 1 >>= increment >> return 2" ^^^^^^^^ *** ^^^ || when they write c = 1 ++c c = 2 -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.