Sorry to disappoint you, but according to an article I read recently,
this tradition it originally appeared in Germany in the 16th century
as a part of the spring festival. So "English culture" isn't quite
appropriate. :-)
I don't want to be misunderstood but I DON'T WANT to believe this.
You don't have to -- it was an APRIL FOOL'S JOKE!
(I figure I better go on record as saying this, otherwise
it will end up in the newspapers and then I really will be
in hot water!)
Happy Haskelling,
-Paul
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Paul Hudak writes:
For every bad story there is a good one. Recently Haskell was used
in an experiment here at Yale in the Medical School. It was used to
replace a C program that controlled a heart-lung machine. In the six
months that it was in operation, the hospital estimates that
the C program, which often crashed and killed the patients.
I don't want to be misunderstood but I DON'T WANT to believe this.
Would these people please wake up and smell the roses. The original
message was sent on APRIL FIRST (hint, hint; solution to puzzle below
for those not
Paul Hudak writes:
For every bad story there is a good one.
For every bad story there are two good ones. Recently, a local
hospital suffered many malpractice suits due to faulty software in
their X-Ray machine. So, they decided to rewrite the code in Haskell
for more reliability.
David Wakeling writes:
Yes, Certainly. Here at York we have a small electrical hoist in one of the
Departmental stairwells which is used for lifting expensive and delicate
equipment onto the upper floor of the building. As part of an experiment in
real time functional programming,
