[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell vs GC'd imperative languages, threading, parallelizeability (is that a word? :-D )

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Aug 21, 2007, at 23:27 , Hugh Perkins wrote:

> Hmmm, that's interesting.  I'd never considered lack of typing to be a
> good thing for system robustness before!

The old watchphrase (before Netscape and Microsoft abused it beyond  
anyone's expectation) for Internet protocols was "be liberal in what  
you accept and conservative in what you send"; same idea.

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