On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 17:14 -0800, Jason Dusek wrote: > Andrzej Jaworski <hims...@poczta.nom.pl> wrote: > > 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.
> ... > Thus it is > in practical arts -- Chinese medicine, Taiji, strategy -- that > one comes to appreciate the Way and its Power. But nonetheless, Haskell is not a practical art, no more than theoretical physics or abstract algebra. jcc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
