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> Nice username! Appropriate given the response any criticism of Haskell elicits. > strict pragma is not an admission of mistake anymore than any pragma and
by haskeldownvot5 11y ago
> Nice username!
Appropriate given the response any criticism of Haskell elicits.
> strict pragma is not an admission of mistake anymore than any pragma and language extension is an admission of mistake. It's a feature, dammit.
A feature that likely wouldn't exist without Idris offering such a compelling, strict alternative to Haskell.
> I personally prefer strict-by-default evaluation to laziness for production code
So would I, which is why I wrote off the language, and why the GHC devs have had to back-peddle and add this pragma.
- dtech 11y agoI rather think the downvoting is based on your inflammatory style, and rather baseless accusations and speculation. I downvoted you because of that, not because I'm some Haskell fanboy who can't handle critique.
- themetrician 11y agoI don't see anything inflammatory about their style. They are just being straightforward and laconic. HN down-voters (the old-timers) are such a sensitive bunch. Students in Mizzou can yell at their professors as they throw their tantrums and no one dares bring them down to civil discourse; be laconic in a HN forum and you get downvoted for not being sensitive to old-timers' feelings.