Jerzy Karczmarczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> More seriously, I jumped into this FP paradise from a good, Fortran
> loving milieu, when I found that there were problems very awkward to
> solve using imperative programming. I wouldn't have started to use FP
> just to test that it is possible to repeat the standard imperative
> archetypic codes functionally, because it is not very rewarding.
I have to agree. I've been mostly ignoring this whole "how to write 'cat' in
Haskell" thread, because I don't find it to be in any regard an interesting
problem, nor a very appropriate one for learning about functional
programming, especially lazy functional programming. If it seems desireable
to re-implement a standard Unix utility in Haskell, I suggest 'make'. One
could even design and implement a 'make' that would know all about Haskell
modules, and parse them to generate dependencies automatically.
Craig
