>> Also: I hear "writing your application in Haskell" is a good way to
>> obfuscate stuff. The generated machine code doesn't follow the usual C
>> calling conventions, which confuses the **** out of reverse engineering
>> tools. That and the multiple, multiple levels of indirection. Then
>> again, it's easy to *say* such things, I wonder if anybody has ever
>> actually put it to the test?
>
> Yeah; and if /I/ were to obfuscate my stuff by writing it in Haskell,
> the result would certainly be broken code, too ;-)

Well played, sir.

(Actually, most Haskell beginners find that almost everything they write 
utterly fails to compile. The saying "when it compiles, it's usually 
bug-free" exists for a reason...)

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