27 Jul
2007
27 Jul
'07
7:12 p.m.
On 7/27/07, Andrzej Jaworski <himself@poczta.nom.pl> wrote:
It offers first hand information that the usefulness of Haskell as programming language amounts exactly to 0. This is a big surprise for me. On the contrary, I think Haskell has been getting too expressive at the expense of fundamental issues left neglected like relatively weak module system.
I think you very much misunderstood what was being said. What Simon appears to say (in my opinion, admittedly) is that Haskell pre-IO was not useful. By adding selective unsafeness (IO, unsafe* functions), Haskell is made into a significantly more useful programming language. -- Taral <taralx@gmail.com> "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknown