I applaud the pedantry, but I must admit that the tone of the original
email is unusually harsh for the Haskell community, even though not so
harsh as to really make me (for example) scared.
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Murray Campbell
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 08:54:43AM +0100, Yves Parès wrote:
See that's typically the speech that scares people away from Haskell... -- The ⥠is a lie.
2011/12/24 Albert Y. C. Lai <[1]trebla@vex.net>
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I find this sort of discussion is precisely what draws me to, and keeps me in pursuit of Haskell. There are many approaches to producing code that are designed (to use a charitable term) to be minimally frightening at the expense of rigour. The dogged and uncompromising attitude of many in the Haskell community is inspiring to me, knowing as I do that, while I don't *need* to follow the more rarified flights of mathematical fancy to get things done, the ecosystem in which I am choosing to work is being built by those who can.
It's not as though the problem of writing good code has been solved. It appears to be quite hard! Isn't Haskell the place where the difficult and nit-picky questions ought to be raised and researched?
It's too late to avoid success at all costs but please don't banish our precious pedantry!
Scare on!
Murray Campbell
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