>> It still slightly frightens me that Haskell is actually this old... 
>> Just think how much better the world could be today if its ideas had 
>> caught on back then?
> 
> A lot of the stuff you take for granted wasn't possible back then.
> 
> It's like "how much cooler would movies be if the ideas behind modern 
> GPUs caught on back when we were still using discrete transistors and 
> core memory?"

A GPU isn't much use without the ability to actually display the image 
it produces. (Hell, they didn't even have enough memory to implement a 
framebuffer. You'd have to print the image on to film incrimentally or 
something.) And given that they also didn't have colour TV yet... or 
even colour film, IIRC...

A paradigm for writing mathematical transformations, however, would seem 
useful no matter how slow the system is. (Although compiling the sucker 
might take a while.)

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