Re: [tlug] Functional Programming Group Meeting

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:

 > But honestly, once I got over my quibbles with ML-style syntax, Haskell
 > became the language of choice, and I'm in love with it.

Andrew Suffield had a great post to the GNU Arch list where he
demonstrated that Haskell syntax is really Lisp without parentheses.

 > Having a type system like that is a wonderful thing, and though to
 > some battling with the type system rather than with the algorithms
 > might seem much of a muchness, for me, even at this early stage, it
 > feels as if I spend a lot more time dealing with the problem I'm
 > trying to solve, and a lot less time dealing with the problems of
 > programming.

Sure.  Then you wait 6 months for the program to run ....

A-Lisper-whistling-in-the-Darcs-ly y'rs,