Patrick, the example simon marlow remarks you've alluded to (i believe its
this one https://plus.google.com/109566665911385859313/posts/FAmNTExSLtz)
are a bit more nuanced than I feel you make it out to be

as a counter point, can point to steve severance's tweets at you and me
https://twitter.com/sseveran/status/413565213762674688
"unbounded queues in haskell can lead to weird failures. I would rather
crash..."
and " Yes…people who build distributed systems that they are pretty sure
work"


either way, I think we all agree that both abstractions are useful, though
perhaps to different people, though how to do them really well is open to
some refinement perhaps


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Patrick Walton <pcwal...@mozilla.com>wrote:

> On 12/31/13 7:20 AM, Carter Schonwald wrote:
>
>> In fact most haskellers building distributed/concurrent systems are
>> emphatically in favor of only bounded channels.
>>
>
> Do you have a citation? Simon Marlow seemed to be firmly in the opposite
> camp.
>
> Patrick
>
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