[Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

Hugh Perkins hughperkins at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 18:26:08 EDT 2007


On 7/17/07, Thomas Conway <drtomc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And this is where I think Haskell has it all over C++, Java, and the
> rest. Haskell is easy to learn at a simple level, and hard to learn at
> the expert level, but once learned is very powerful and has excellent
> payoffs in terms of productivity. With C++ or Java, the expertise is
> somewhat easier to acquire, but you never get the payoff. And before
> you all flame, yes, I do know C++ at an expert level, and that is
> exactly why, after 7 years of writing server software in C++, I now
> want to do it in Haskell.
>

You know, it just occurred to me: I get the feeling that many Haskell
programmers are ex-C++ programmers, which makes a certain amount of sense
because C++ is insanely hard to debug and maintain, because of stack/heap
corruption, and lack of a GC.

Am I the only person who finds it interesting/worrying that there are few to
no people in the group who are ex-C# programmers.  I mean, you could argue
that C# programmers are simply too stupid to do Haskell, but ... you know,
there is another explanation ;-)
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