22 Oct
2006
22 Oct
'06
10:21 p.m.
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Neil Mitchell wrote:
It seems better to change the language so it works like _everyone_ expects it does, rather than become syntax dictators. It's hard enough persuading people to move from C, but when you tell someone that their perfectly unambiguous sytnax is "wrong", they aren't going to be amused.
I don't know why it is so important to convince every C programmers of Haskell. Making a language fit to everyone's taste eventually led to what is today known as Perl.