<much snippage> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:07 AM, r0g <aioe....@technicalbloke.com> wrote: > Lie Ryan wrote: >> I have been looking at Haskell recently and the way the pure functional >> language handled exceptions and I/O gives me a new distinct "insight" >> that exceptions can be thought of as a special return value that is >> implicitly wrapped and unwrapped up the call stack until it is >> explicitly handled. > > Yes there's some very interesting paradigms coming out of functional > programming but, unless you're a maths major, functional languages are a > long way off being productivity tools! Elegant: yes, provable: maybe, > practical for everyday coding: not by a long shot!
Methinks the authors of Real World Haskell (excellent read btw) have a bone to pick with you. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
