[Haskell-cafe] New slogan for haskell.org

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Wed Oct 10 21:45:11 EDT 2007


On Oct 10, 2007, at 20:14 , Michael Vanier wrote:

> I haven't been following this discussion closely, but here's an  
> idea: use reverse psychology.
>
> "Haskell -- You're probably not smart enough to understand it."
>
> Nothing like appealing to people's machismo to get them interested.

Haskell already has that reputation, and so far as I've seen most  
programmers conclude they shouldn't waste time on it when "any half- 
trained monkey can write Java/Perl/Python".

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH




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