[Haskell-cafe] Re: Data constructors versus types

[Achim Schneider]

Anton van Straaten <anton at appsolutions.com> wrote:

> gwern0 at gmail.com wrote:
> > On 2008.01.17 00:58:19 +0100, jerzy.karczmarczuk at info.unicaen.fr
> > scribbled 0.9K characters:
> >> Achim Schneider writes:
> >>> Lisp is actually not really meant to be compiled, but
> >>> interpreted. 
> ...
> >> Would you mind stopping to spread dubious truths?
> ...
> > I don't think it's a dubious truth. 
> 
> It's about as accurate as saying "Television is actually not really 
> meant to be color, but black and white".
>
Yes, that about fits... the chroma data still has only half the
resolution of luminosity.

In fact, it wasn't even meant to be a programming language, just a
calculus.

But still, I should have written "was meant" not "is meant".

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