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

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Thu Nov 29 15:48:58 EST 2007


Henning Thielemann wrote:
> When I want to judge a programming language I like to see a "gallery", a
> collection of beautiful programs. This shows me
>  1. what are the problems, the language developers want to tackle
> (does "general purpose" for the developers mean "web, XML and data base
> processing" or "computationally intensive numerical stuff")
>  2. how do they solve them, i.e. what are the special features of the
> language and how do they help solving the problem, what style of
> programming does the language support.
>   

Well-said that man...

Now, the question becomes "what examples demonstrate the things that 
Haskell is good at?"



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