Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: New slogan for haskell.org

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 20:19 +0000, Aaron Denney wrote:

On 2007-10-05, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

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But where is the great IDE Haskell deserves??? :-) Seriously, 99% of the programmers I know don't want to look at it because when they see Emacs or VIM, they say "what the f*ck????, I don't want to go back to the stone age". If you want to attract more people that are inside the "imperative-OO-with-nice-IDE-blob", create a great looking and functional IDE.

Bluntly, I don't see why the Haskell community needs those sorts of programmers.

Hear, hear. At the company I work for, all the code is perl/web development --- and we wouldn't dream of hiring one of those programmers. In fact, I think decreasing the number of those programmers in existence would be a good way to /increase/ the quantity and quality of the programs in existence; those are the sorts of programmers that, if they ever found a new career, we'd have to put three additional programmers out of a job just to break even. <snip> jcc