On 27 Nov 2007, at 14:44, David Menendez wrote:
On Nov 26, 2007 1:44 PM, Thomas Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But the point is that this section of the site is the bit that's meant
to be an advertisement -- we're trying to encourage people to read
more,
Are we? I thought Haskell.org was intended to describe what Haskell
*is*. There are plenty of articles and blog posts and wiki pages out
there that advocate Haskell. I don't see why the main web page needs
to be polluted with marketing.
Because someone's first contact with Haskell is likely to be someone
saying "I use this really cool language called Haskell", or a lecturer
teaching it to them. In either case, if a tiny amount of interest is
sparked, their likely second contact is likely to be haskell.org
(through guessing or googling). Quite frankly, there's nothing going
to put me off a language more than a paragraph full of unknown buzz
words that I have to look up on the front page.
There's plenty of places on Haskell.org where we can describe what
haskell *is*, but the front page should be used for grabbing peoples
attention and telling them why it's useful.
Tom Davie
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