"Neil Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Talking to professional programmers, if I tell anyone I program in > Haskell they nearly always say "oh, Pascal, that's cool".
You need to say HHHHHHHHaskell... > No one knows what functional programming is, Scheme/Lisp > are the closest. Maybe we should try and hijack the phrase > functional programming I think we should call it "Abstraction Oriented Programming". It's got the "oriented" buzzword in it, and we don't need to tell folk that "abstraction" means more than one thing to us until we're sure they're OK. -- Jón Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe