It's not true at all that Haskell was created by type theorists. It is true that little attention was paid for how things are done in C. :) On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:39 PM, <johndearle at cox.net> wrote: > > It needs to be appreciated that the Haskell language was created by type theorists who were not necessarily concerned with how they do it in C.