Re: Functional MetaPost?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:44 PM 4/17/01 +0200, Johannes Huesing wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 04:33:34PM +0100, Marc van Dongen wrote:
>> Henning Hraban Ramm (hraban@fiee.net) wrote:
>> 
>> : I just read in the german TeX-D-L about something named
>> : "Functional MetaPost", written in a never-heard language named 
>> : Haskell. Perhaps someone is interested:
>> 
>> Haskell is extremely cool. Check it out.
>
>This recommendation definitely does not extend to Henning :-)
>
>I haven't seriously dealt with Haskell but it looks like it has 
>an extremely steep learning curve. 

A quick look at the paper [describes an alternative for the boxit package]
makes me wonder is another language on top of mpost makes live easier at
all. Is the mp language really that bad? A complex problem remains a
complex problem and it's more the features of a language (i.e. mp) than the
wrapper around it that help us there. Interesting general question: how far
does abstraction go? Another one: a computer language [and mp and tex are
actually more application languages] is used to build an interface an dnot
so much to be the interface itself, but i may be wrong here.   

Hans 
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