On 2008 Dec 19, at 4:13, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
When accurate names for Haskell concepts already exist we should use them (as we have tried in the past). There has been too much invention of misleading terminology in computing already. If some people can't handle things having the right names, well, maybe they should try another language. (What would happen if we used the new name principle, e.g., in cooking? "Oh, cinnamon is a difficult name, I'll call it tangy spice instead.")
Cinnamon's already got an accuracy problem anyway: what most people in the US call cinnamon is actually cassia. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH