On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:58:59PM -0500, Paul Hudak wrote: > Aaron Denney wrote: > >I'd rather it didn't until a few warts were fixed. OTOH, it may be too > >late already, barring a Haskell 2. > > Does Python not have warts? Or Pearl, or Java, or C#? I don't think > that a few warts prevent a language from becoming a "success".
Of course not. My point was not how to get Haskell to take off, but that I'd rather one with fewer warts did than one with more. A misfeature in a popular language sticks around forever. I think Haskell is slowly accellerating, and will reach "widely known about" status fairly soon. > But you may be right that it is too late... Haskell is getting old! > Sometimes I think that for a language to "succeed" it must do so in its > infancy. Perl didn't really take off until perl 4. Java had a huge marketing engine behind it. Python did take off relatively quickly, though. > Perhaps the thing to do is create a new language with a new name, but > base it entirely on Haskell's semantics, then equip it with just one > really good library to solve well just one important niche problem, and > see what happens. If it is seen as a shiny new silver bullet in just > one niche area, it might take off like a rocket. And it lets the biggest warts be fixed. -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
