[Haskell-cafe] Why Haskell is beautiful to the novice

Neil Davies semanticphilosopher at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 08:33:46 UTC 2015


Which, of course, leads us directly to: http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/y2k_humor/Cobol.html .... :)
On 1 Sep 2015, at 09:29, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:12 AM M Farkas-Dyck <strake888 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31/08/2015, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> > Of course not. There are application areas for which COBOL is clearly
> > superior to - and hence more worthy than - Java. Or Haskell.
> Name one.
> 
> Maintaining ~50-year old government systems that are written in COBOL.  
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