Re: [Haskell-cafe] Channel9 Interview: Software Composability and theFu ture of Languages

catamorphism:

On 1/26/07, Collin Winter wrote:

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You have a PhD in computer science from Princeton, so your measure of what's "hard" and what isn't in this regard is nearly worthless.

I find it incredibly insulting for you to assert that people who complain about Haskell's difficulty are too lazy and aren't really interested in a better solution. Maybe they just don't want to have to take graduate-level classes in category theory to get their job done.

I've never taken a graduate-level class in category theory, or any course on category theory, and I'm a Haskell implementor. So perhaps the people who think they need to taken graduate-level classes in category theory in order to use Haskell are barking up the wrong tree (or perhaps I'm not a very good Haskell implementor, which is always possible.)

I haven't done any graduate level category theory either, and I hack Haskell 24/7! Let's form a union!! -- Don