[Haskell-cafe] Ideas
Andrew Coppin
andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Sat Aug 25 15:16:10 EDT 2007
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 07:43:30PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>
>> Hey, aren't we trying to tell people is a
>> *useful* language that people should learn and use? ;-)
>>
>
> Actually, we aren't. You might not have been able to tell, but a core
> goal of our community is to stay small and avoid success at all costs;
> our language is not practical, not designed to be practical, and if it
> ever becomes practical, it will have done so only by a terrible streak
> of bad luck. Remember, success breeds inertia, and inertia would ruin
> our fundamental goal of being an agile research language.
>
Heh. Well, that told me... o_O
Maybe *this* is why everybody else thinks I'm an idiot for using
Haskell... :-(
PS. Wasn't one of the explicit design goals "to design a standardised
language for teaching FP"?
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