On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 07:43:30PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Neil Mitchell wrote:
HI
Flippi (google: Haskell Flippi)
...and yet haskell.org uses WikiMedia? (Which is written in something bizzare like Perl...)
Yes, but WikiMedia is a result of years of work, Flippi is a lot less. Wikipedia uses WikiMedia - its a tried and proven solution.
Well, I guess...
I just thought, you know, the Tcl wiki is written in Tcl, why isn't the Haskell wiki written in Haskell? Hey, aren't we trying to tell people is a *useful* language that people should learn and use? ;-)
Actually, we aren't. You might not have been able to tell, but a core goal of our community is to stay small and avoid success at all costs; our language is not practical, not designed to be practical, and if it ever becomes practical, it will have done so only by a terrible streak of bad luck. Remember, success breeds inertia, and inertia would ruin our fundamental goal of being an agile research language. :) Stefan