[Haskell-cafe] On the verge of ... giving up!

Philippa Cowderoy flippa at flippac.org
Thu Oct 18 10:55:15 EDT 2007


On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, jerzy.karczmarczuk at info.unicaen.fr wrote:

> Felipe Lessa writes: 
> > On 10/17/07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > > ... And it frustrates the hell out of me that 100% of the human
> > > population consider Haskell to be an irrelevant joke language. ...
> 
> > I feel this way as well, specially because one of the teachers here
> > tell all students that Haskell is the slowest thing ever by comparing
> > Fibonacci sequence implementations between C and Haskell *using Hugs*.
> 
> We shall thus understand that a teacher who likes Fibonacci, is a
> representant of of the 100% of the human population. 

Uh, Jerzy? You might want to consider this a variant of the idiomatic 
"nobody cares", which also isn't quite meant literally.

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