Paul Johnson <paul@cogito.org.uk> writes:
So I tried to summarise the Haskell "value proposition" compared to the incumbent languages. Thats what it looks like to me, and I am not exactly ignorant on the subject, so I suggest we take it as a given for now and look at the real question:
Is there a market that is poorly served by the incumbent languages for which Haskell would be an absolute godsend?
What about speed of development, and speed of change? One of the pragmatic programmer guys recently suggested that software development could become simple enough that you could have a dev on every street corner. You'd walk down to the corner and ask for certain app, then get it in a few hours. Abstraction addiction can be a danger, but it also lets you put out working code in a tiny amount of time, as well as later extend that code to add new features in equally small amounts of time. What if development time for new programs was measured in days not years? -- I've tried to teach people autodidactism, | ScannedInAvian.com but it seems they always have to learn it for themselves.| Shae Matijs Erisson