On 10-12-05 12:34 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote:
Oh yeah, the 2.0 stuff that snobby techies love to hate :) hrrmpf back in my day we programmed in binary using a magnetized needle on the exposed tape! I don't need any of this newfangled bull****.
I kid! But I am curious to see why people are so opposed to this stuff? The attitude "I can't see any reason for it to exist" (without having seriously tried it) seems similar to that our (haskell's) detractors use when taking a cursory glance at it and saying the syntax doesn't make sense.
I pointed out one pragmatic problem, and even a workaround; this is not a case of hugging an old magnetized needle. Perhaps you should take more than a cursory glance of my message before saying that the stance doesn't make sense. If you have misplaced it, here it is again: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/84003