[Haskell-cafe] Crash!

John Dorsey haskell at colquitt.org
Fri Oct 24 17:16:23 EDT 2008


Quoth Tim Newsham:
> >Haskell programs with particular constraints (i.e. pure, total Haskell, 
> >doesn't
> >primarily call gtk...)
> 
> Yup, and that's a great thing that we should be evangelizing to
> all potential users.  No need to go overboard and tell them that
> there will never be a crash, though..  The robustness claim is
> strong enough without embellishment.

Pure, total Haskell programs may blow the stack.

Just what is the concise, compelling, unembellished claim regarding
Haskell's inherent robustness?

Regards,
John Dorsey



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