Jim Burton wrote: > > > Adrian Neumann wrote: >> There was a thread about that: >> >> > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-September/ >> 031402.html > > Thanks! I didn't literally mean "elevator pitch" and if I knew that thread > existed would have phrased my post differently, because a list of the > things that are cool about Haskell will not impress them. What I want and > am finding it hard to create are examples where FP shines and, for the > same problem, imperative languages look like more work. >
Parallelism! Something based on dons' blog http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/11/29#smoking-4core will be a good start. Many will think of > programming solely in terms of developing websites, GUIs, database access, > so I will demonstrate how strongly-typed database access can help them. > > Jim > > [...] > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Elevator-pitch-for-functional-programming-tp21560192p21565826.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe