[Haskell-cafe] Tutorial: Haskell for the Evil Genius

[Conal Elliott]

Hi Andrew,

To save others the search, here's the/a reddit URL:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/related/nhnyd/nfa_in_a_single_line_of_haskell/.

The terribly misleading/mistaken remarks on fib & memoization are still in
your post. As hammar commented on reddit commenter, you're not memoizing in
that example; just shadowing one fib definition with another (very partial)
one. (BTW, I highly recommend compiling with -Wall in all cases and then
addressing all reported issues. Doing so would have issued a shadowing
warning.)

Another comment:

As a declarative language, Haskell manipulates expressions, eventually
> reducing expressions to values.
>

Huh? In what sense do declarative languages manipulate expressions? Sounds
like a classic syntax/semantics confusion, especially when interpreters
and/or lazy evaluation (implementation issues, not language properties) are
in the mix.

Regards, - Conal


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <
andrew.pennebaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've gotten mixed feedback from Reddit for my tutorial. It provides an
> overview of how functional and declarative programming in Haskell empower
> baddies, increasing the accuracy and efficiency of their atomic
> superweapons. What do you guys think of my tutorial, Haskell for the Evil
> Genius <http://www.yellosoft.us/evilgenius/>?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew Pennebaker
> www.yellosoft.us
>
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