On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:15:52 -0800
Doug Ransom
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A lot of the things Haskell excells at (IMO) inferior tools are being used in place. For example, microsoft has build good XSLT translators and two new compilers (C#, VB7) in the last couple years. Unfortunately, C#, not Haskell, will probably be "the" language for the next decade. [stuff deleted]
Just out of curiosity: what makes you so sure about C#? C# has some potential big problems, too: in particular, the ability to declare a portion of the code "unsafe," which can encourage unsafe programming among entrenched C/C++ programmers. I myself am in no big hurry to master C#. I'd rather use a set of domain-specific languages with interlinked code, rather than a single language that purports to be as general-purpose as C# does. Benjamin L. Russell russell@brainlink.com "Furuike ya! Kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." --Matsuo Basho