[Haskell-cafe] Haskell as a religion

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Dec 18, at 11:47, Paul Moore wrote:
> 2008/12/18 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu>:
>> On 2008 Dec 18, at 9:13, John Goerzen wrote:
>>>
>>> Some ideas in Haskell are easy to integrate into other languages:  
>>> see
>>> list comprehensions in Python.  I don't see Perl picking up  
>>> pervasive
>>> laziness anytime soon, nor Python compile-time type inference.
>>
>> I think perl6 is specced with pervasive laziness, although I'm not  
>> sure it's
>> actually implemented anywhere.
>
> I assumed it was implemented lazily, so that when you use it
> somewhere, the Perl 6 developers implement that part of the feature
> :-)


Lot of truth to that at the moment :)

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