11 Oct
2007
11 Oct
'07
11:38 a.m.
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 21:45 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Oct 10, 2007, at 20:14 , Michael Vanier wrote:
I haven't been following this discussion closely, but here's an idea: use reverse psychology.
"Haskell -- You're probably not smart enough to understand it."
Nothing like appealing to people's machismo to get them interested.
Haskell already has that reputation, and so far as I've seen most programmers conclude they shouldn't waste time on it when "any half- trained monkey can write Java/Perl/Python".
And regularly does. Unfortunately, American culture is such that most people *aspire* to being half-trained monkeys... jcc