On Monday 23 July 2007, Hugh Perkins wrote:

C would be an engine. You have to add the wheels. If you use anything but a 75.0% mix of gasoline to oil, it explodes.

Fine you guys can have Haskell as the hovercraft, not one of those big ones mind,

How do you get that Haskell has to be small? It seems a great big language to me.

one of those Florida glades ones, like in Lassie, with one guy sitting on it, weaving between the aligators.

Java is a hot air balloon. Kindof obvious really ;-)

C# is the F1 ferrari.

Jonathan Cast http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-core http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-emacs

Yeah, but to learn how to start the hovercraft, you have to take a 6-week training class. On 7/23/07, Hugh Perkins wrote:

On 7/23/07, Jonathan Cast wrote:

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Fine you guys can have Haskell as the hovercraft, not one of those big

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mind,

How do you get that Haskell has to be small? It seems a great big language to me.

Well, partly to be controversial, partly because.... one of those small zippy 'glade hovers would be just so much fun! You're saying you'd rather play around with a big commercial hovercraft like they use across the Channel?

Let the commercial boys use F# or O'Caml, we can zip around on the 'glade hover :-)

Oh, and by the way, the 'glade hover in our case is modular and comes with 100% user serviceable parts!

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*> Haskell* is an incredibly elegantly-designed and beautiful car, which is rumored to be able to drive over extremely strange terrain. The one time you tried to drive it, it didn't actually drive along the road; instead, it made copies of itself and the road, with each successive copy of the road having the car a little further along. It's supposed to be possible to drive it in a more conventional way, but you don't know enough math to figure out how. Not too biased ;-)