[Haskell-cafe] Non-technical Haskell question

[Jason Bailey]

I think you may be asking the wrong question.

As one of the "rank and file" and fairly new to Haskell (less then a 
month) I can tell you that there is a growing awareness of functional 
programming and that it offers different paradigms to work with.

I think the more important question is - "is Haskell ready?"

So far, from the perspective of a newbie, I would say no.

The documentation is sparse and confusing, the "standard" libraries seem 
incomplete and how complitaion and linking is handled feels antiquated.

I mean I think its a really cool idea, and I'm having fun learning it. 
But I would be hard pressed to come up with a justification to introduce 
this into our business environment.

Jason

GoldPython wrote:

>Hi, all,
>
>I'm new to the Cafe, but not to Haskell (experimented with it on and
>off on a small scale over the last 5 or 6 years and enjoy the language
>quite a lot) and had more of a political question and wanted to see
>what people thought:
>
>Has anyone tried presenting the language to the average rank and file
>programming community?  If so, was it successful? If not, is there
>interest in doing so?
>
>By "rank and file" I mean, outside of the acedemic world where a large
>number of the programmers I see have very little math background. This
>would be the typical commercial Visual Basic crowd and the like.
>
>Thanks,
>Will Collum
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