Fritz K Ruehr wrote: ...
The second link is a little polemic entitled "Why People Aren't Using Haskell", which I presume would be of interest to readers of this list (the author is Dejan Jelovic, whom I don't recognize as a regular contributor here):
http://www.jelovic.com/articles/why_people_arent_using_haskell.htm
If you didn't verify this site, forget it. There is NOTHING serious there. Over and over again the same silly song, by a person who - visibly - had never anything to do with functional languages, who thinks now about hiring some C and java programmers living in Belgrade, but who writes such silly, incompetent things as:
And there is an air of staleness: where new versions of these other languages appear frequently, the Haskell community is offering you Hugs98.
Delovic points out that some languages became "immensely" popular, as e.g. Ruby, and that Haskell is marginal. Hm. this extremely orthodox Japanese essence of O-O programming may have some practical merits, especially those which come from shameless borrowing from Eiffel, Sather, Clu and Common Lisp, but calling Haskell "marginal" or "obscure" informs us not what is Haskell, but who is Jelovic. He accuses the Haskell community of not providing libraries... == Perhaps there is *one* point worth mentioning: the necessity to publish papers about Haskell far from such journals as JFP or HOSC, but to try to reach DrDobbs etc. I would add: Software: Practice and experience, and journals on numerical software where one could show some non-trivial implementations of practical, numerical algorithms. Jerzy Karczmarczuk Caen, France PS. What is "hamster dance", anyway?