From: nikhil@com.dec.crl

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
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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.