[Haskell-cafe] New slogan for haskell.org

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Thu Nov 29 13:50:40 EST 2007


Dan Weston wrote:
>   [...] and facilitates "borrow-from-the-future" techniques where 
> useful with infinite data structures or recursive algorithms.

And this, gentlemen, is just one of the reasons why Haskell gets 
labelled as "scary".

It's very hard to explain what this enigmatic riddle-like statement 
actually *means* without a very long exposition. (Heck, *I* haven't 
worked out how to "borrow from the future" yet...)

[The other reason, of course, is that Haskell's syntax isn't C / C++ / 
Java / VB... which suits me just fine! ;-) ]



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