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No, but he did say "beware, herein lies advocacy." Which is a tongue-in-cheek version of saying "ok, I know, I didn't do my due dilligence, but it's my blog and
by nothrabannosir 12y ago
No, but he did say "beware, herein lies advocacy." Which is a tongue-in-cheek version of saying "ok, I know, I didn't do my due dilligence, but it's my blog and I love Haskell and I'm excited about this one thing I just built."
Not everything is a paper in Nature. I understand your point but he's honest about it just being a propaganda piece.
And, frankly, what's wrong with that?
Thanks to the author for taking the time to share.
- coldtea 12y ago>And, frankly, what's wrong with that? That it doesn't solve OUR problem, which is "help us chose if Haskell if better", even though it pretends to?
- tel 12y agoI don't see how it doesn't help. It might not help as much as could be asked, but it's a cute example of "real world" Haskell use and he described the parts of it he rather liked.
- platz 12y agoHere's a follow up post from a different author, that continues on this subject, and also explains some of the benefits of the haskell approach: http://nikita-volkov.github.io/a-taste-of-state-parsers-are-easy/ http://nikita-volkov.github.io/a-taste-of-state-parsers-are-...