On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 15:22 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Vimal wrote:
I think you have got a very good point in your mail that I overlooked all along ... "Why was Haskell created?" is a question that I havent tried looking for a answer :)
To avoid success at all costs?
(No, seriously. The basic idea was that there used to be about two-dozen languages like Haskell, but all developed by different people and all with different syntax and so on. So they wanted to create a single language suitable for teaching to students. You could say it's the Pascal of the functional world... Hey, maybe that explains the lack of success?)
The first goal listed in the Haskell 1.0 Report is: "It should be suitable for teaching, research, and applications, including building large systems." Haskell was never intended to be solely a teaching or research language. (You didn't necessarily say that, but it is a widely held and propagated misconception.)