On 11/07/07, brad clawsie
Yeah, and 640K should be enough for everybody... Again, the original statement was about 20 years down the line. Go back 20 years and people would say similar things about C (comparing it to assembly).
but one could argue that the democratization of programming will indeed marginalize "hair shirt" tech like haskell in favor of something accesible to the wider public
Maybe. Frankly I don't much care. Haskell may become more accessible to the wider public, or it may not. But it seems pretty clear that we need something *like* Haskell to be able to effecitvely program the devices of the future, and whatever language that turns out to be, I'll just be happy that I don't need to use C anymore! -- Sebastian Sylvan +44(0)7857-300802 UIN: 44640862