Jörg W Mittag

That Aviator that Bill Buxton was talking about is probably more well known as an Author: Antoine Marie Roger Vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, French Author and Aviator. The quote is from the book Terre des Hommes (Wind, Sand and Stars):

Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher.

It would seem that perfection is attained not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Wouldn't it be great if someone were to invent some kind of unified wireless protocol so that not every little device needs to come with its own stupid little plug? What would be even greater is if that protocol had some kind of catchy name, maybe incorporating a color. Something like RedTooth. Doesn't that sound cool?

Has anyone run this program (I mean the inefficient, naive, obvious first one) through the Supero Haskell Supercompiler? I would imagine that a supercompiler should be able to perform this kind of program fusion on its own, without human intervention. Sadly, I just can't seem to figure out how to install the thing.

Am I right that the Zip LINQ sequence operator in .NET 4.0 whose signature Erik wrote down actually corresponds to Haskell's zipWith function, not zip?

Without looking it up, using kind of my mental type inferencer, the type of zipWith would have to be

zipWith :: (a → b → c) → [a] → [b] → [c] 

, which is exactly the signature of .NET 4.0's Zip.