Re: [Haskell-cafe] Another analogy

2007-07-25 Thread Hugh Perkins
*> Haskell* is an incredibly elegantly-designed and beautiful car, which is rumored to be able to drive over extremely strange terrain. The one time you tried to drive it, it didn't actually drive along the road; instead, it made copies of itself and the road, with each successive copy of the ro

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Another analogy

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Vanier
I submit my own attempts for consideration: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/cars.html Mike Andrew Coppin wrote: From the guy who brought you "data in Haskell is like an undead quantum cat", I present the following: "If programming languages were like vehicles, C would be a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Another analogy

2007-07-23 Thread Andrew Wagner
Yeah, but to learn how to start the hovercraft, you have to take a 6-week training class. On 7/23/07, Hugh Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/23/07, Jonathan Cast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Fine you guys can have Haskell as the hovercraft, not one of those big ones > > mind, > > How

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Another analogy

2007-07-23 Thread Hugh Perkins
On 7/23/07, Jonathan Cast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fine you guys can have Haskell as the hovercraft, not one of those big ones > mind, How do you get that Haskell has to be small? It seems a great big language to me. Well, partly to be controversial, partly because one of those sm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Another analogy

2007-07-23 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Monday 23 July 2007, Hugh Perkins wrote: > C would be an engine. You have to add the wheels. If you use anything but > a 75.0% mix of gasoline to oil, it explodes. > > Fine you guys can have Haskell as the hovercraft, not one of those big ones > mind, How do you get that Haskell has to be sma

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Another analogy

2007-07-23 Thread Hugh Perkins
C would be an engine. You have to add the wheels. If you use anything but a 75.0% mix of gasoline to oil, it explodes. Fine you guys can have Haskell as the hovercraft, not one of those big ones mind, one of those Florida glades ones, like in Lassie, with one guy sitting on it, weaving between

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Another analogy

2007-07-23 Thread Brent Yorgey
On 7/23/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From the guy who brought you "data in Haskell is like an undead quantum cat", I present the following: "If programming languages were like vehicles, C would be a Ferrari, C++ would be a Porshe, Java would be a BWM and Haskell would be a hover

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Another analogy

2007-07-23 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Monday 23 July 2007, Andrew Coppin wrote: > From the guy who brought you "data in Haskell is like an undead quantum > cat", I present the following: > > "If programming languages were like vehicles, C would be a Ferrari, C++ > would be a Porshe, Java would be a BWM and Haskell would be a hoverc

[Haskell-cafe] Another analogy

2007-07-23 Thread Andrew Coppin
From the guy who brought you "data in Haskell is like an undead quantum cat", I present the following: "If programming languages were like vehicles, C would be a Ferrari, C++ would be a Porshe, Java would be a BWM and Haskell would be a hovercraft. It doesn't even have WHEELS! There is no ste