Udo, I am cross posted/migrated this to Haskell-cafe per Simons request sorry for the late response I don't check this email on weekends I really dislike Perl as a programming language but I have to strongly disagree about your statements about CPAN and the quality of its contents. I have worked professional in Perl (Feel free to feel sorry for me) for over a year and I have always been impressed with what I could find in CPAN. Perl obviously has a niche and is "well supported by its community". Perl is popular so it must have some merit. I don't subscribe to the flawed reasoning that Perl Hackers just don't know any better or that they are dumb, or intellectual inferior in some way. Programmers have very good and valid reason for choosing their tools and I will have words for those who irrational state otherwise especially in a belittling manner I am pro choice. I am going to borrow some Ebonics "Don't language Hate Appreciate" Troy -----Original Message----- From: haskell-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Udo Stenzel Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 7:06 AM To: haskell@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell] Re: Newbie: what are the advantages of Haskell? Michael T. Richter wrote:

I wish I knew the language better so I could start working on those libraries.

Which ones? "those libraries" cannot come into existence until someone says what's actually missing. (The bulk of CPAN is crap and is certainly not worth being reimplemented.) -Udo -- "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California." -- E. W. Dijkstra