[Haskell-cafe] Proposal: New syntax for Haskell

[Bob Ippolito]

Have you tried AppleScript? I wouldn't say it's pleasant to use, but it's
easy to read.

On Thursday, September 12, 2013, David Thomas wrote:

> I've long been interested in a scripting language designed to be spoken.
> Not interested enough to go about making it happen... but the idea is
> fascinating and possibly useful.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de');>
> > wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Cucumber seems to be great if you mainly want to read your code over the
>> telephone, distribute it via national radio broadcast, or dictate it to
>> your secretary or your voice recognition software.  You can program thus
>> without having to use you fingers.  You can lie on your back on your sofa,
>> close your eyes, and utter your programs...
>>
>> We could have blind Haskell/Cucumber programming contests...
>>
>> Tons of new possiblilities...
>>
>> Strongly support this proposal. ;-)
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> On 2013-09-10 22:57, Artyom Kazak wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:20:26 +0400, Thiago Negri <evohunz at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'evohunz at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>> I hope these jokes do not cause people to be afraid to post new ideas.
>>
>> Agreed. I would also like to clarify that my message was much more a joke
>> on
>> the incomprehensibility of legal acts than on the original proposal.
>>
>> By the way, I am pretty impressed with this piece of Cucumber
>> description/code:
>>
>>    Scenario: Mislav creates a valid task with an upload
>>      When I go to the "Awesome Ruby Yahh" task list page of the "Ruby
>> Rockstars" project
>>      When I follow "+ Add Task"
>>      And I fill in "Task title" with "Ohhh upload"
>>      And I follow "Attachment"
>>      When I attach the file "features/support/sample_files/dragon.jpg" to
>> "upload_file"
>>      And I press "Add Task"
>>      And I wait for 1 second
>>      And I should see "Ohhh upload" as a task name
>>
>> I was much more sceptical when I had only seen the example in Niklas’s
>> message.
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