Re: [Haskell-cafe] Aim Of Haskell

Hi

That's exactly the problem! For most people there *is* no difference. You say "functional programming" to most people, even professional programmers, and usually the only chance you have of getting them to understand what what you mean is by asking "so, have you heard of Lisp, or Scheme?"

Talking to professional programmers, if I tell anyone I program in Haskell they nearly always say "oh, Pascal, that's cool". No one knows what functional programming is, Scheme/Lisp are the closest. Maybe we should try and hijack the phrase functional programming - Haskell is just too similar to Pascal. Thanks Neil