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10 Oct 2024 23:21:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A comparison  
From: Invisible
Date: 20 Mar 2008 11:40:57
Message: <47e29399$1@news.povray.org>
>> Maybe if they *had* written it in Haskell it would have come to market 
>> much faster, cheaper, and it would have actually *worked* properly. :-P
> 
> And delivered years later ;). If they had written it in Haskell, they'd 
> actually had to rewrite it from the scratch (I'm pretty sure they've 
> reused lots of code from earlier versions). Bye-bye for old bugs, yes. 
> Welcome for new bugs, also yes.

Well, I'm told they rewrote a lot of it already, but yeah, you're 
probably right...

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