[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tutorial uploaded

[Udo Stenzel]

Donn Cave wrote:
> Meanwhile, that fellow evidently didn't write any compiler in Haskell
> at all.  Better a C++ program than a Haskell program that offends you?

Oh no, he actually wrote something disgusting built mostly out of
regexes in Perl.  I don't think it even works, and I don't think I
could have convinced him to Do The Right Thing in whatever language.  

But that's besides the point.  The conviction that a parser or lexer or
prettyprinter means IO is simply wrong, and imho a tutorial should show how
much is purely functionally possible before introducing control flow,
mutable variables and all the other ugliness.  It's more productive this
way.



Udo.
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