[Haskell-cafe] Re: New slogan for haskell.org

jerzy.karczmarczuk at info.unicaen.fr jerzy.karczmarczuk at info.unicaen.fr
Thu Nov 29 07:49:03 EST 2007


Simon Marlow writes: 


> Perhaps 
> 
> Type Inference: deduces types automatically, so you don't have to clutter 
> up your code with type declarations.  You can still write type 
> declarations for documentation purposes, and these will be automatically 
> checked by the compiler.

Perhaps it won't harm adding that manual signatures are useful semantically
as well, for the disambiguation. 


> What I'd *really* like to see is a bunch of links on the front page 
> leading to pages that describe the main differences between Haskell and 
> some other language (C, Python, Java, C#, F#, ...).

... and, perhaps, playing not only with the pedagogy by contrast, but
also by similarities, to mention Clean. 

Jerzy Karczmarczuk 




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