[Haskell-cafe] Guy Steele's Praise For Haskell @ Strange Loop Keynote

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 1/15/11 18:15 , Warren Henning wrote:
> MATLAB, LabVIEW, Fortran, Java, C, and non-OO C++/random subsets of
> C++ rule scientific programming. Unit testing is rare and sporadic. In
> dragging scientists halfway to something new, the exotic, powerful
> things in Haskell will have to be left behind, just as Java only has a
> tiny fraction of what Smalltalk has had since the '80s.
> 
> That seems clear to me, anyway.

Scipy seems to be doing a decent job of throwing that into question.

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