[Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

[Jonathan Cast]

On Friday 13 July 2007, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> > Don does not speak for the whole community, I for one am fine with
> > answering all these questions :)
>
> I guess when somebody as important as Don says something, you take
> notice...
>
> > Specifically, Don really wants you to get off of the mailing list and
> > ask all these questions on IRC; he's been trying to hint this to you for
> > a while.  My extreme social cluelessness allows me to explain it to your
> > face.  (not that I agree with him; IRC is not well suited to things
> > requiring long explanations like "what is a quantifier")
>
> True. And IRC also has the limitation that you only access the people
> who are logged in right *now*...
>
> On the other hand, IRC has the advantage that if somebody goes into a
> long explanation and you didn't really understand step #2 there, you can
> ask them to stop and go back to that part without having them write a
> huge explanation that you won't understand anyway... so they both have
> advantages. (And then there was that time I tried to use a release of
> Gtk2hs which, unknown to me, was brand new and had a small installer
> glitch in it... Mr Coutts was most helpful on that one.) And let's not
> forget Lambdabot... LOL!
>
> >> (Everybody in the main forum I inhabit has now taken to auto-deleting
> >> any post that mentions the word "Haskell". Except for Mr C++, who seems
> >> to seek out such threads so he can tell me how superior C++ is to
> >> Haskell...)
> >
> > Try not to care what other people think.
>
> LOL! If only that were in fact physically possible...

Why not?  I do it all the time...

> Is it OK to quote xkcd in responce to this one?

It's always OK to quote xkcd :)

> http://www.xkcd.com/c154.html
>
> ;-)

Jonathan Cast
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