are you a student (undergrad or grad) or faculty (junior or senior)? These
are all very different scenarios and accordingly different goals are
realistic.
For example, if you're a student, it might be more realistic to start with
finding a professor who will be willing to supervise an independent study
class.
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Petr Pudlak
Hi all,
I'd like to convince people at our university to pay more attention to functional languages, especially Haskell. Their arguments were that
(1) Functional programming is more academic than practical. (2) They are using logic programming already (Prolog); why is Haskell better than Prolog (or generally a functional language better than a logic programming language)?
(1) is easier to answer, there are a lots of applications at HaskellWiki, or elsewhere around the Internet, written in Haskell, OCaml, etc. Still, I welcome comments on your experience, for example, if you have written some larger-scale application in Haskell (or another a functional language) that is not at HaskellWiki, and perhaps if/why you would recommend doing so to other people.
(2) is harder for me, since I've never programmed in Prolog or another language for logic programming. I'd be happy if anyone who is experienced in both Prolog and Haskell could elaborate the differences, pros & cons etc.
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