[caughtexception]

hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

"GHC can target some quasi-embedded platforms these days, but it's also possible to write embedded programs in (pardon the overloading) an embedded DSL that can compile to C."

Haskell can't do any useful work without relying on C. Instead of having pride in what C can do, you have invented the following adjectives "hybrid", "mathematical language", "insecure", "impure", "pure".

Either,

1) Stop with the adjectives and get Real.

2) Prove that Haskell can replace C, the "impurity".

The same holds true for mathematical heritage. I would ask mathematicians to use Mathematica, not Haskell.

(I don't consider OCaml to be a part of this debate because OCaml is hybrid and Real, like C++)

[dllthomas]

You asked some questions, I answered them in an attempt to be helpful. Any conclusions you draw about my personal beliefs are spurious and roughly as well founded as your conclusions generally. For what it's worth, I write a bunch of C and I like C very much. I also like Haskell and have to say you really don't know what you're talking about here. I'm not interested in dealing further with these kinds of ramblings, at this point.

[caughtexception]

> my personal beliefs

Your and the haskell community's puritan behavior.

> you really don't know what you're talking about here.

Can't Parsec English ? I define the word hypocrisy, from a dictionary no less.

[dllthomas]

This is nothing but trolling. I wasn't disputing your definition; but you weren't including it as merely an informative point on a random English word. By the pragmatics of English conversation, it was clearly meant as an accusation in this context. Your retreat to defense of the definition, as opposed to any notion of the applicability of the definition or of anything else you've said, is disingenuous. In any event, at this point I am done responding in this thread, whatever else is posted.