Re: [Haskell-cafe] funct.prog. vs logic prog., practical Haskell

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:25, Petr Pudlak wrote:

   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.

Which, even if it were true, is an argument *for* instead of *against* teaching it at a university; that is what the word "academic" means, after all... Thomas