Scheme as a virtual machine?

[Tamas K Papp]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:25:34 -0800, scattered wrote:

> On Nov 22, 9:45 am, Raffael Cavallaro
> <raffaelcavall... at pas.despam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com> wrote:
>> On 2010-11-22 08:12:27 -0500, MarkHanif... at gmail.com said:
>>
>> > All opinions are biased.
>>
>> All opinions show some bias. Not all opinions represent what is usually
>> called a "conflict of interest." Since JH makes his living selling
>> tools and training for certain languages, he has a severe conflict of
>> interest wrt asessing the value of various other languages. If these
>> other languages are just as good or better than those he makes his
>> living from, it would be very damaging to his livlihood for him to
>> admit this fact. As a result, he is a completely unreliable source on
>> the question.
>>
>>
> And you don't think that Jon Harrop could write a book about Haskell if
> he honestly came to think that it were a superior all-aroung language?

Until he writes one, it is useless to speculate about what he could or
could not do.

There are some pretty good books on Haskell, lots of excellent
resources online, and the online community is very supportive.
Writing a book which adds significant value to that would not be a
trivial undertaking.

Best,

Tamas