From: jhf@gov.lanl.c3.chaco

From: jhf@gov.lanl.c3.chaco
Subject: Re: re. A Good Story
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 93 09:26:08 MST
To: haskell@EDU.YALE.CS

|>    Paul Hudak writes:
|>    For every bad story there is a good one.
|
|For every bad story there are two good ones.  Recently, a local
|hospital suffered many malpractice suits due to faulty software in
|their X-Ray machine.  So, they decided to rewrite the code in Haskell
|for more reliability.
|
|Malpractice suits have now dropped to zero.  The reason is that they
|haven't taken any new X-Rays ("we're still compiling the standard
|prelude").
|
|Nikhil

Maybe they'd better alert their legal staff now, just in case,
as I'm working on a new alternative Substandard Prelude.

--Joe