I think you may be asking the wrong question. As one of the "rank and file" and fairly new to Haskell (less then a month) I can tell you that there is a growing awareness of functional programming and that it offers different paradigms to work with. I think the more important question is - "is Haskell ready?" So far, from the perspective of a newbie, I would say no. The documentation is sparse and confusing, the "standard" libraries seem incomplete and how complitaion and linking is handled feels antiquated. I mean I think its a really cool idea, and I'm having fun learning it. But I would be hard pressed to come up with a justification to introduce this into our business environment. Jason GoldPython wrote:
Hi, all,
I'm new to the Cafe, but not to Haskell (experimented with it on and off on a small scale over the last 5 or 6 years and enjoy the language quite a lot) and had more of a political question and wanted to see what people thought:
Has anyone tried presenting the language to the average rank and file programming community? If so, was it successful? If not, is there interest in doing so?
By "rank and file" I mean, outside of the acedemic world where a large number of the programmers I see have very little math background. This would be the typical commercial Visual Basic crowd and the like.
Thanks, Will Collum _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe