On 12/12/06, Brian Hulley
Neil Mitchell wrote:
Maybe we should try and hijack the phrase functional programming - Haskell is just too similar to Pascal.
This reminds me of when I was getting an X-ray a few months ago and I struck up a conversation with the radiologist who turned out to be an ex-computer programmer so he asked what language I was using so I said "Haskell" and he said something like "Oh yeah Pascal I know that..."
Perhaps we need a tutorial on how to pronounce the word "Haskell" so that it doesn't sound like "Pascal" :-) (eg "Hiskeeeell")
Actually, the more I think of it, the more I think we should rename the language altogether. It seems like people say "Haskell" with stress on the first syllable if they were either on the committee or learned it inside academia, and "Haskell" with stress on the second syllable if they learned it from online sources. And we really don't need more pronunciation-based class distinctions. "Curry" would have avoided this problem. Cheers, Kirsten -- Kirsten Chevalier* chevalier@alum.wellesley.edu *Often in error, never in doubt "It was cold in the house so I slept in my car / And I steamed up the windows, then it started to rain / And I dreamed about sex and I dreamed about peppers / Woke up doing 85 in the passing lane" -- Ed's Redeeming Qualities