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  Re: Why is Haskell interesting?  
From: Warp
Date: 28 Feb 2010 08:40:29
Message: <4b8a724d@news.povray.org>
Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
>         Now you know how lots of people feel when they have to learn UNIX
> (command line). At some point, you just tell them, "Hey, that's the way
> it is. Weird, obscure, but works, and doesn't really get in your way
> once you know it".

  The difference is that unix is 43 years old and there were no established
conventions back then.

  If you develop a new programming language today, there should be a good
reason why you go against general conventions. Making it different just for
the sake of being different is not smart.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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