[PRL] Why knowing Haskell is bad

[Matthias Felleisen]

On Oct 6, 2006, at 10:27 AM, shivers at ccs.neu.edu wrote:

>    From: Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>
>    Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:20:01 -0400
>
>    It's what I want to achieve (roughly) and I know, I do so. Read and
>    weep.
>
>    --> http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog.php?id=1107301645
>
>    Someone has to create an applicative version of Java/C# libs, which
>    is what my ECOOP talk proposed. I bet that, plus some syntax, would
>    go a long ways to better software dev/programming
>
> Insufficient, I think, to simply whip up some pure functional libs  
> for Java &
> C#. Would the pragmatics be there? That is, would you get the kind of
> performance you'd get using those idioms in MLton? Cost models and  
> notational
> overhead both have impact on how programmers program.

If the cost is reasonable (constant factor), it'll be okay in 18 or  
36 months.

-- Matthias