[Haskell-cafe] New slogan for haskell.org

[Donn Cave]

On Oct 5, 2007, at 1:59 AM, Bayley, Alistair wrote:

>
> So the question becomes: do you want to attract/seduce this kind of
> programmer? Let's assume the answer is yes :-)

Hmm...

> ... Then what sort of
> language should you use in your promotional paragraph? I don't think
> "polymorphism", "monads/monadic effects", "higher order functions",  
> and
> even "type classes" should be used. These terms will be universally
> unfamiliar to the target audience, and will alienate them.

Maybe.  Good.  Some readers will say to themselves `this language  
appears
to have many unfamiliar features ... I must look into this!'  At this  
point, these
are only ones who are going to thrive anyway.

 From what I've seen, the greatest hurdle is the features that ARE  
familiar,
particularly strong static typing.  Everyone knows static typing from  
Pascal,
C, C++, Java ... know what I'm saying?  If there's some way to defeat  
this
false recognition, that should help a lot.

Or maybe that's good too, for more survivor self selection.  Maybe a  
good
slogan would be `like LISP, but with strong static typing!'

	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com