Re: [Haskell] How to make Haskell more popular

2005-04-01 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
FYI Perl 6 is being implemented in Haskell (in <4k of code!), so you can do both! Project: http://pugscode.org/ Interview: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/03/03/pugs_interview.html -Alex- On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 12:28 PM, Jon Fairbairn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Haskell] How to make Haskell more popular

2005-04-01 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On Apr 1, 2005 12:28 PM, Jon Fairbairn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) If another language has a feature, add it to Haskell, so ... Bah! Why don't you just use Perl! :-) /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862 ___ Haskell mailing lis

Re: [Haskell] How to make Haskell more popular

2005-04-01 Thread Colin Paul Adams
You omitted: 8) Rename Haskell to VB (or Java or C++ or C#, whichever polls prove to be most popular). -- Colin Paul Adams Preston Lancashire ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

[Haskell] How to make Haskell more popular

2005-04-01 Thread Jon Fairbairn
1) If another language has a feature, add it to Haskell, so that absolutely everything can be done in more than one way. This allows people to write Haskell programmes without going through the tiresome process of learning Haskell.` 2) Overload the syntax so that the Hamming dist