On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 09:28:23PM +0200, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:55:46PM +0200, Remi Turk wrote:
P.S. Why do so many people (including me) seem to come to Haskell from Python? It can't be just the indentation, can it? ;)
How many? I don't.
Best regards, Tom
At least one. (Me) And, judging from the amount of references to Python in these mailing-lists, I really doubt I'm the only one. I actually met Haskell mostly by reading about it in the python mailinglist/newsgroup. (in e.g. Alex Martelli's posts) Someone else (who shall remain anonymous. SCNR) wrote:
Speculation I'm afraid to post: People are drawn to Python because they hear it is a clean language, but slowly find that it's really pretty messy internally. Haskell is beautiful on the outside and the inside. :-)
The last sentence I can definitely agree with, but I'm not so sure Python really is that messy. (Messier-than-Haskell sure, but messy? ;o) Groetjes, Remi P.S. Hm, it _is_ haskell-cafe, but maybe it's about time for a [Off-topic] note? ;) -- Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.