Hello Malcolm, Monday, July 16, 2007, 4:52:01 PM, you wrote:
After all, we would expect the same attributes (intelligence and training) from a neurosurgeon, a nuclear scientist, or someone who calculates how to land a person on the moon. Programming computers may not seem very skilled to most people, but maybe that is simply because we are so familiar with it being done so badly.
are you ever tried, for example, programming GUI applications using WinAPI directly? it required serious skills but i don't think that we lose too much with all the modern RAD tools otoh, i don't think that Haskell by itself is too complex. i seen the same complaints in the early GUI era, early OOP era. Haskell and functional programming in whole just need to have larger teaching base: courses, books and so on. and PhDs will always find some tricky ideas just to prove that they are smarter than other people ;) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com