Re: another take on hackers and painters

[Michael Vanier <address@hidden>]

I can't say I agree with your views on static typing, although many on this
list will.  Have you ever used a really *nice* static type system like in
ocaml or haskell?  They're not perfect, but they're miles ahead of what
most people think of when they think "static typing".  Here is quicksort in
haskell:

    qsort :: [Int] -> Int
    qsort [] = []
    qsort (x : xs) = qsort [ y | y <- xs, y <= x ]
                     ++ [x] ++ qsort [ y | y <- xs, y > x ]

Beautiful enough for ya? ;-)

Mike

> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 04:56:07 +0000
> From: Scott Parish <sRp@srparish.net>
> 
> I very much enjoyed the article Hackers and painters, but I think it
> only caught one side of the story, and after listening to the discussion
> on ll1 i decided to answer it with this article:
> 
> Hackers: sketchers, drafters
> http://blog.srparish.net/blog/articles/technical/hackers-sketchers-drafters.html
> 
> sRp
> 
> -- 
> Scott Parish
> http://srparish.net/
>