Re. Haskell Digest, Vol 41, Issue 3, Quotes of the Week:

* Eric: The Haskell [code] contains no redundancy. In fact, in all the [Haskell] code I've written, in both production and play, each idea is expressed once and only once. It is the Zen ideal of perfect code. And thats never happened to me before.

You may also be interested in the following: "The real key to good programming is the Write Things Once or WTO principle: any violation of this principle means a replication that makes the program harder to understand and to maintain, and yields a potential source of bugs: modifying a copy without modifying the other ones." Gerard Berry, in The Esterel v5 Language Primer, June 5, 2000 Nikhil ---------------------------------------------------------------- Rishiyur S. Nikhil, Ph.D.,CTO Email: nikhil@bluespec.com Bluespec, Inc. http://www.bluespec.com 14 Spring St. Tel: +1.781.250.2203 Waltham, MA 02451, USA Cell: +1.617.359.0747