[Haskell-cafe] Re: Interesting new user perspective

Claus Reinke claus.reinke at talk21.com
Mon Oct 13 17:37:48 EDT 2008


> If you want to make Haskell more widely used, do pick a name for
> Haskell Prime that starts with an A. I first heard of Haskell when
> exploring the list of computer languages that Gedit could highlight.
> Just imagine going through all those A,B,C,D,E,F,G before I came to
> Haskell.

That is a simple sorting error in Gedit, just submit a patch. As 
professor 'iggins pointed out long ago, speakers of the English
language drop their 'H's anyway, so 'askell should come long
before 'A'.

Couldn't resist not resisting,-)
Claus



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