On 10-12-05 12:34 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote:
Oh yeah, the 2.0 stuff that snobby techies love to hate :) hrrmpf back
in my day we programmed in binary using a magnetized needle on the
exposed tape! I don't need any of this newfangled bull****.
I kid! But I am curious to see why people are so opposed to this stuff?
The attitude "I can't see any reason for it to exist" (without having
seriously tried it) seems similar to that our (haskell's) detractors use
when taking a cursory glance at it and saying the syntax doesn't make
sense.
I pointed out one pragmatic problem, and even a workaround; this is not
a case of hugging an old magnetized needle. Perhaps you should take more
than a cursory glance of my message before saying that the stance
doesn't make sense. If you have misplaced it, here it is again:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/84003
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