From: nikhil@com.dec.crl Subject: re. A Good Story Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 11:11:27 -0500 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- PS: These experiences reaffirm my pleasure at Paul's decision about this time a few years ago against chucking functional programming and computer science and becoming a hermit.(Back to Haskerl index.)