[Haskell-cafe] questions about core

[Kirsten Chevalier]

On 2/12/07, Dougal Stanton <ithika at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quoth Joel Reymont, nevermore,
> >
> > Are these two different Simons? :-)
> >
>
> I'm beginning to wonder if Simon is less a name and more a title,
> meaning "strong in the lambda force" or somesuch. Let's hope they don't
> go over to the dark side ;-)
>

I read that "Simon" means "one who listens to or obeys God." Tying
this together with Stefan's post, maybe God is sort of like the
unwritten denotational semantics for Haskell.

Cheers,
Kirsten

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