Someone once quipped about a Haskell library that “You know it’s a good library when just reading the manual removes the problem it solves from your life forever.” I feel the same way about this article. That’s a compliment, in case you were wondering.
The one criticism I would make is that it’s long, and I think you could spread this to other sites and enlighten a lot of people if you wrote an abridged version and perhaps illustrated it with silly pictures of cats.
Thank you very much. That’s exactly the feeling I hoped people would have if this dissolved the question and it’s great to hear.
I can’t think of how to make this shorter without removing content (especially since this is already pitched at an advanced audience—anything short of LW and I’d have to explain status quo biases, preference reversal tests, and actually justify determinism).
I ran a Google search for the line you quoted, but no results; I’d be interested to know what the original author meant by it, I don’t suppose you have any links handy?
stepcut: You know a library is good when just reading about it removes the particular task it performs from your life altogether.
It’s a pretty funny quotes page, if you like Haskell. And I wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t include my favorite thing from that page, concerning the proper indentation of C code:
“In My Egotistical Opinion, most people’s C programs should be
indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.”
-- Blair P. Houghton
Having fought far too many segfaults, and been irritated by the lack of common data structures in libc, I can only agree.
Someone once quipped about a Haskell library that “You know it’s a good library when just reading the manual removes the problem it solves from your life forever.” I feel the same way about this article. That’s a compliment, in case you were wondering.
The one criticism I would make is that it’s long, and I think you could spread this to other sites and enlighten a lot of people if you wrote an abridged version and perhaps illustrated it with silly pictures of cats.
Thank you very much. That’s exactly the feeling I hoped people would have if this dissolved the question and it’s great to hear.
I can’t think of how to make this shorter without removing content (especially since this is already pitched at an advanced audience—anything short of LW and I’d have to explain status quo biases, preference reversal tests, and actually justify determinism).
I can, however, give you an lolcat if you want one.
I ran a Google search for the line you quoted, but no results; I’d be interested to know what the original author meant by it, I don’t suppose you have any links handy?
It was on a wiki page that was lost in a shuffle years ago. HOWEVER! I managed to track down a copy of the page, and hosted it myself. Here’s the one I was paraphrasing:
It’s a pretty funny quotes page, if you like Haskell. And I wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t include my favorite thing from that page, concerning the proper indentation of C code:
Having fought far too many segfaults, and been irritated by the lack of common data structures in libc, I can only agree.
Thank you for this.
Thanks! excellent reading.