[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is www.haskell.org down?

Chad Scherrer chad.scherrer at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 15:26:13 EDT 2008


Don Stewart <dons <at> galois.com> writes:
> Some choice quotes:
> 
>    "almost all of the examples of Haskell's use in industry are fakes"
> 
>    "nobody has ever done anything significant using Haskell"
> 
> Jon's the primary source of FUD against Haskell and its community, as he
> goes around promoting his site in other functional programming
> communities. This kind of behaviour's been going on for a few years now,
> sadly.

Maybe trolls are just an unfortunate growing pain. Never see those in purely
academic languages.



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