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.

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..."

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...

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