Chris Rebert wrote: > <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
LOL, it seems things have come a long way since ML! I'm impressed how many useful libraries Haskell has, and that they've included IF-THEN-ELSE in the syntax! :) For all its advantages I still think you need to be fundamentally cleverer to write the same programs in a functional language than an old fashioned "English like" language. Maybe I'm just mistrusting of the new school though and you'll see me on comp.lang.haskell in a few years having to eat my own monads! Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
