[Haskell-cafe] Re: New slogan for haskell.org

[Henning Thielemann]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Simon Marlow wrote:

> What I'd *really* like to see is a bunch of links on the front page leading
> to pages that describe the main differences between Haskell and some other
> language (C, Python, Java, C#, F#, ...).  The easiest way to grasp what
> Haskell is all about is by reference to a known baseline, and programmers
> tend to have different baselines.  e.g. the C page might start with
> "Haskell is a functional language", whereas the Python page might start
> with "Haskell is statically typed".

Python page could start with: "You like 'map', 'filter', 'for x in ...'
and lambda's in Python? Then you will like to learn where Python has
borrowed these features."