Andrew Coppin wrote:
Don Stewart wrote:
I think of Haskell more as a revolutionary movement
LOL! Longest revolution EVER, eh? I mean, how long ago was its dogma first codified? ;-)
Lisp has been around for how long now? Measured in decades. We don't even have our version of a Symbolics machine yet!
Basically, Haskell will never be popular, but its coolest ideas will be stolen by everybody else and passed off as their own. :-(
Well, in a sense, if that happens, we would have won, right? We'd have created a situation where "paradigm shift" would mean more than just a buzzword on some CEO's presentation slide ;-) In another sense, isn't this what Haskell was explicitly created to do? (Combine ideas from a bunch of similar languages into one standard one) Some ideas in Haskell are easy to integrate into other languages: see list comprehensions in Python. I don't see Perl picking up pervasive laziness anytime soon, nor Python compile-time type inference. -- John