Re: simplicity and seriousness

1997-08-22 Thread Fergus Henderson
Zooko Journeyman, you wrote: > > Anyway... All this came out because I saw someone saying "We > need to add all these features in order to make Haskell useful > for serious programming!". That may well be true, depending on > what the features actually are, but it strikes me as ironic > since

Re: simplicity and seriousness and efficiency

1997-08-21 Thread Zooko Journeyman
Someone wrote: > Honestly, would you use a language which does not allow to program a > depth-first graph traversal in O(n). Ah. I didn't realize it was that bad. My understanding of Haskell is quite rudimentary. And yet, now that I think about it, I have never implemented a depth-first gr