On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:25, Petr Pudlak<d...@pudlak.name> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to convince people at our university to pay more attention to > functional languages, especially Haskell. Their arguments were that > > (1) Functional programming is more academic than practical.
Which, even if it were true, is an argument *for* instead of *against* teaching it at a university; that is what the word "academic" means, after all... Thomas _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
