"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
>
>>> Well, as I say, this is now about the 5th time I've been told to shut 
>>> up.
>>
>>
>>    From what I can see, you're mixing with the big boys there Andrew. If 
>> you have faith in what you can say and do with Haskell, then back it up 
>> and front them with it. "Stick it to 'em Cap'n Mainwaring!"
>>
>>    Those guys probably know eachother and go back a long way, (even with 
>> other languages), and then along comes the new kid on the block. Think 
>> about it for a while.  ;)
>
> In this instance, the problem seems to be that I stepped on somebody's 
> favourit branch of mathematics. (I made statements that could be construed 
> as implying that category theory is incomprehensible and/or pointless. 
> What I was *actually* trying to say is that you don't need to be an expert 
> in category theory to use Haskell...) I also posted an evaluation tree 
> that contained a minor technical error (I mixed up a left-fold and a 
> right-fold). So I got flamed to hell.

     Ok, a mistake was made - no biggy. It happens. You *are* human, aren't 
you Andrew?  ;)


>
> Interestingly, after I left somebody else piped up with "you're picking on 
> HIM?? That's insane! He's one of the few non-PhDs who's actually 
> interested in the language and you have a go at him. And people wonder why 
> nobody uses Haskell..."

     Well, there you go. That was nice of him/her.


>
> Maybe I'll resubscribe. There's some stuff I need answers to. But I'll 
> have to make a habit of not saying *anything* other than questions and 
> answers - because I'm really tired of being flamed every single damn time 
> I speak...

   Resubscribe with a new moniker of 'PurpleHaaaaaaze' and give 'em some 
crap (code-wise) just for fun. Go frit. <eg>

   Don't take what's happened to you seriously. Those guys are bored out of 
their minds and you were the next best thing to having some excitement in 
their lives - really. They're probably embarrased that you know what you do, 
and were just looking to put you down because you're better than them. (At 
least, tell yourself that 10 times a day!)  :)

    ~Steve~

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