27 Jan
2007
27 Jan
'07
2:23 p.m.
Humm. While I can accept that this is a valid criticism of Haskell's monadic structure for dealing with I/O, I fail to see how it could drive a decision to prefer an imperative language like C#, where every statement has this property (overspecification of evaluation order).
True.. perhaps his objection was related to having a bulky syntax (one line per action, if one is not using a higher order function to combine actions) rather than having an order of evaluation rule in the language and letting the programmer (mostly) ignore it (sometime to is own peril). Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/