[Haskell-cafe] Re: Elevator pitch for Haskell.

2007-09-10 Thread Aaron Denney
On 2007-09-08, Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All these things are minor. The Prelude numeric classes aren't broken - they don't quite match what a mathematician might have picked, but its certainly easy enough to do numeric operations! They can be used, but they don't break down in

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Elevator pitch for Haskell.

2007-09-06 Thread Niko Korhonen
Paul Johnson wrote: For software developers who need to produce highly reliable software at minimum cost, Haskell is a pure functional programming language that reduces line count by 75% through reusable higher order functions and detects latent defects with its powerful static type system.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Elevator pitch for Haskell.

2007-09-06 Thread Ketil Malde
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 09:54 -0700, Simon Michael wrote: I agree actually. That picture, while very cool, won't help Haskell marketing one bit. :) Avoid success at all costs, remember? Lisp's made with alien technology is much more inviting: http://www.lisperati.com/logo.html . True.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Elevator pitch for Haskell.

2007-09-06 Thread Dan Weston
Perhaps your (admittedly young) colleague had other reasons to inquire... It turns out that (in the US at least) the lambda symbol is one of the symbols of gay pride since the 1970's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_symbol#Lambda If you google lambda gay you will find many more

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Elevator pitch for Haskell.

2007-09-05 Thread Simon Marlow
Ketil Malde wrote: WARNING: Learning Haskell is dangerous to your health! :-) I liked that so much I made a hazard image to go with it. http://malde.org/~ketil/Hazard_lambda.svg Cool! Can we have a license to reuse that image? (I want it on a T-shirt) Cheers, Simon

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Elevator pitch for Haskell.

2007-09-05 Thread Ketil Malde
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 12:06 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: Ketil Malde wrote: WARNING: Learning Haskell is dangerous to your health! :-) I liked that so much I made a hazard image to go with it. http://malde.org/~ketil/Hazard_lambda.svg Cool! Can we have a license to reuse that image?

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Elevator pitch for Haskell.

2007-09-05 Thread jerzy . karczmarczuk
Simon Marlow writes: Ketil Malde wrote: WARNING: Learning Haskell is dangerous to your health! :-) I liked that so much I made a hazard image to go with it. http://malde.org/~ketil/Hazard_lambda.svg Cool! Can we have a license to reuse that image? (I want it on a T-shirt) People, are

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Elevator pitch for Haskell.

2007-09-05 Thread Simon Michael
I agree actually. That picture, while very cool, won't help Haskell marketing one bit. :) Lisp's made with alien technology is much more inviting: http://www.lisperati.com/logo.html . I wish we could use it! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list