dons

If you read the comments you will see that Dons actually agreed with me after arguing the contrary.

As if the president dons his cowboy hat, gets into an Apache Rambo-style and hunts terrorists, right?

By your reasoning, mafia dons should never have been prosecuted, since by design in these organizations it is very rare that they personally direct the commission of crimes.

Haskell is 20 years old, and this has been made 'good practice' only very recently -- I'd date it to dons's revival blitz a few years ago.

I like this too, but it's worth noting two things: 1) this is from 2007 2) Real World Haskell (which is authored in part by dons) recommends against using fail, and it's much more recent.

In the UK: I'd imagine some people from Cheltenham are having tea with some senior civil servants and a couple of dons in an Oxford college somewhere while chatting about the need to keep our end up.

Many kudos to dons for creating an awesome twm, but I don't think it's a good investment of time for the HN userbase (i.e., the young start-ups who just want to get their thing working and up, whatever be that 'thing').

As dons told you, "There are reasons why Haskell is not popular.