[Haskell-cafe] Proposal: New syntax for Haskell

[David Thomas]

Honestly, I've not.  Worth looking at, probably.


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:

> 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>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> 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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