Thanks everyone for hearthly responses. And I''m pretty sure all of you had really great points.

to Antareus.
Hmm interesting, What should I say? When have you read a book lately? Amber is nice, or perhaps some poetry. You''d improve style in such responses. ^_^

Programming without macroassebly would be more difficult. All that small code for direct talk to the hardware, or small nifty libraries... It would be hard work without it.

to Fidelio66
cite from Ranma. "You sure about it?"

(unrelated to above)
"Enchanced" for loop?
halfscript has
for galaxies get galaxy

Java has
for( Object o: e){
}
However, some people said, Java just added some eye candy. They might be right. It''s just something that makes programming more easier, not a break bone (in JITs).

It''s heavily used in halfscript.

re flangazor post
I tried it in the Java.

char someChar = ''v''/ ''v'';
System.out.print(" "+someChar);

It compiled without problems and result was exactly as expected. What would happen in the Haskell?