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On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:55:51 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> There are many people who believe that Haskell is a weird and baffling
>>> language. Personally, I think this is untrue.
>>
>> Heh, but you think C is a weird and baffling language, so it balances
>> out. ;)
>
> Baffling? Yes. Weird? Not so much. Just ill thought out.
Consider when it was created. I'm sure Brian and Dennis (ie, K&R,
creators of the C programming language) would probably disagree with
you. ;-)
> Somebody somewhere obviously thought that treating characters and arrays
> as the same type was a good idea...
Personally, I think it is - data is data is data is data. A "string" is
an array of characters.
Jim
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