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

[Henning Thielemann]

Vo Minh Thu schrieb:

> Every once in a while, a discussion about the top-level text on
> Haskell.org pops in this list. Without paying much attention to this
> thread, and without digging the older threads, it occurs to me that
> different people have very different opinion on this subject. I think
> this is not a problem at all, because of the following thought:
> 
> When someone is interested enough in a programming language to land on
> its homepage (i.e. haskell.org here), that someone has enough
> resources at her disposal to make a somewhat informed choice, and
> those resources can't be only a top-level text on the homepage.

When thinking about "What would I like to see when judging a programming
language?", I found that I most like a gallery of small example programs.