Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

andrewcoppin:

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I saw a quote somewhere round here that went like this:

"Haskell isn't really suited to heavily I/O-oriented programs." "What, you mean like darcs?" "...oh yeah."

Great quote! :)

TY. :-) Be even greater if I could remember who the heck said it... (It's probably a #haskell quote from the Humour section on the Wiki, as a guess.) Actually, thinking about it, if you wanted to demonstrate just how badly Haskell sucks at I/O, we have: - Darcs - XMonad - Lambdabot - Frag - Wasn't there a stand-alone HTTP server somewhere? - GHC (provides make-like functionallity, and also invokes half a dozen external programs to do its work) - Any others? Yep, I'd say that's pretty conclusive. ;-)