On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 21:45 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Oct 10, 2007, at 20:14 , Michael Vanier wrote: > > > I haven't been following this discussion closely, but here's an > > idea: use reverse psychology. > > > > "Haskell -- You're probably not smart enough to understand it." > > > > Nothing like appealing to people's machismo to get them interested. > > Haskell already has that reputation, and so far as I've seen most > programmers conclude they shouldn't waste time on it when "any half- > trained monkey can write Java/Perl/Python".
And regularly does. Unfortunately, American culture is such that most people *aspire* to being half-trained monkeys... jcc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
