On 7/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Coxall</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:pseudo.meta@gmail.com">pseudo.meta@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I wonder why &#39;we&#39; aren&#39;t pushing things like this big time. When Ruby<br>took off, more than anything else it was because of Rails. Web<br>programming is something &#39;the kids&#39; can really get into, and it caused
<br>Ruby to explode into the mainstream geek consciousness.<br><br>Maybe the Haskell community should push something like Happs or Wash<br>in the same way.<br></blockquote></div><br>I&#39;m gonna agree with this.&nbsp; Web applications are really easy to write, and easy to publish, searchable in Google etc.
<br><br>It&#39;s also a big business requirement.&nbsp; The difference in value between a script that does something fancy, and a webpage that does something less fancy, but is easy to use, is enormous.<br><br>