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Re:Teenage Haskell by username223 on Friday June 27, 2014 @11:11PM (#7957317)
> Would they think Python was stupid or would they be grateful that all of a sudden they could use a for loop?

They would probably be at least as mystified by infinite loops as Python programmers are by space leaks.

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Re:Teenage Haskell by thinkpad20 on Friday June 27, 2014 @11:15PM (#7957324)
There are infinite loops in Haskell too. (And space leaks in python)
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Re:Teenage Haskell by username223 on Saturday June 28, 2014 @12:16AM (#7957390)
Are any of the space leaks available without explicit syntax, e.g. genexps? GHC is smart, but only smart enough to mostly hide your misunderstandings about what it can do with your code.
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Re:Teenage Haskell by seanmcdirmid on Saturday June 28, 2014 @05:40AM (#7957849)
A space leak is simply pinning memory unintentionally, which definitely happens in most garbage collected languages.

Perhaps Python programmers would be baffled by time leaks instead :)

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