[Haskell-cafe] A rant against the blurb on the Haskell front page

Henning Thielemann schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de
Sun Oct 17 14:33:09 EDT 2010


Ketil Malde schrieb:
> Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> writes:
> 
>>> Good start, if only the "advanced" were replaced with something more
>>> characteristic, like "lazy", or "statically typed". Which, BTW, both do not
> 
>> "lazy" and "statically typed" don't mean much to other people. They are
>> buzz words that mean nothing to many people.
> 
> But they /are/ defining characteristics of the language, still.  I think
> they should be mentioned, ideally as links to separate pages (or
> pop-ups or a "live" sidebar?) that explain what they mean, and why you'd
> want them.

Please no special effects - but simple links to according Wiki pages
would be great. I already started some Wiki articles for the basic
concepts, and in an interim state they were already linked from the
introductory buzz paragraph.


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