[Haskell-cafe] Interesting new user perspective

[John Goerzen]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:29:54PM -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote:
> > I've  
> > got a Haskell book here (Hutton, 170 pages) that doesn't even mention  
> > how to open a file!
> 
> That short, and you expect minor features like that (that not every
> program even needs) to be squeezed in?

Uh... yes.  Opening and closing files, command-line parsing, etc --
needed by almost every program.  Aside from some very simple
stdin-to-stdout filters, it is difficult to imagine a program where
you don't need to open a file!