On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:18 -0700, John A. De Goes wrote: > Are you saying has been no progress since K&R C in the number of > libraries available to C programmers? And that C programmers still > have to edit files with vi and compile and link by specifying all > files on the command-line? > > You may disagree, but the evidence points in the opposite direction. > There are tens of thousands of robust C libraries available to suit > any particular programming need. Many of Haskell's own libraries are > based on C versions. Tool support for the C language (not for some > successor you might think would exist if the language continued > evolving) can detect memory leaks, detect memory overwrites, apply > dozens of automatic refactorings to C large-scale C programs, etc. > > Library and tool support for the C language is light years beyond > Haskell. It wouldn't be there if we had been through 20 iterations of > C each completely breaking backward compatibility.
Maybe you should use C then? jcc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
