Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Non-technical Haskell question

Aaron Denney wrote:

On 2004-12-06, Gour wrote:

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Any idea how to make a (more organize) community effort to bring Haskell out?

I'd rather it didn't until a few warts were fixed. OTOH, it may be too late already, barring a Haskell 2.

Does Python not have warts? Or Pearl, or Java, or C#? I don't think that a few warts prevent a language from becoming a "success". But you may be right that it is too late... Haskell is getting old! Sometimes I think that for a language to "succeed" it must do so in its infancy. Perhaps the thing to do is create a new language with a new name, but base it entirely on Haskell's semantics, then equip it with just one really good library to solve well just one important niche problem, and see what happens. If it is seen as a shiny new silver bullet in just one niche area, it might take off like a rocket. -Paul Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an apple.