Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> writes:
Jerzy Karczmarczuk<jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr> writes:
Don't worry, my friend. Haskell is lazy, so there is no problem in
"handling" those infinite modules. It will just take you an infinite
amount of time before you get any money from such a work. But this is
a general problem elsewhere as well.
I guess you must be thinking of Haskell being increasingly used in
banks? It must have been some bank manager who, after hiring one too
many Haskell programmers, invented a scheme that would generate an
infinite amount of money. He didn't realize before it was too late that
the actual value of the scheme would be bottom...
See also: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Humor/Enron
--
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Janis Voigtländer
http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~jv/
mailto:j...@iai.uni-bonn.de
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