[mercury-users] There's nowt so boring as writing thesis

[Tyson Dowd]

On 11-Sep-1998, Andrew Bromage <bromage at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> G'day all.
> 
> Tyson Dowd wrote:
> 
> > IMHO Mercury syntax is more taxing on the writer than the reader.
> > Sometimes things are a little time-consuming to write, but on
> > reading it's quite clear what is what, because the syntax makes it
> > pretty clear.
> 
> This is very true, the majority of the time.
> 
> > Haskell syntax is reversed.
> 
> Not for an APL hacker. :-)
> 
> It's reversed in direction compared to the way that you tend to design

When I said reverse, I mean it's more taxing on the reader than the
writer.  Unless the reader happens to spend all day reading sequent
calculus, of course ;-)

--
Tyson.