On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Andrzej Jaworski <hims...@poczta.nom.pl>wrote:
> I just want to say Hello to let you know that there are some serious > entities watching you besides > monads and FBI:-) > > There has been a hell of a discussion recently about logos, languages and > religion and I want to add > to this. > > First let me disassociate Haskell from Taoism which to may taste has left > us in an unhealthy climate. > It suffices to say that Taoism is a school of clever trics and cute > aphorisms but without the > slightest attempt to explain or generalize let alone produce an abstract > idea or a system. That is > why its wisdom is non transferable in spite of majority of humans desending > from it. Haskell on the > contrary is a minority school that implements abstract ideas for problem > solving in the most > transferable way to date, so that other languages look into it for their > share. But don't worry, > thay will choke becouse it is them who practice Taoizm. Playing too many > tricks will eventually > trick them, even if some are powerful enough to brainwash dicent professors > to preach > interoperability or the like. Every viable complexity needs a single > underlying concept to survive, > including you and the universe. Microsoft and the like excluding;-) > Haskell has all that: consistency, transparency and self-contained concept. I associate Haskell with Zen, due to one of my favorite dialogues: "If it's purely functional, how do you *do* anything?" "You don't ;-)" (Courtesy of Conal Elliott) Haskell and Zen both happen to be my favorites in their respective fields (and exactly which field that is for both is somewhat fuzzy) Luke
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