Benjamin L. Russell:
It seems rather strange that although Clean is very fast, it does not
seem used very much in comparison with such other functional languages
as Haskell and Scheme.
Although this has been discussed on this mailing list before, one
possible reason that I can think of is the lack of an interactive
environment, which tends to be more important with an
academically-oriented functional language than with an
industry-oriented one. In many other functional languages that are
widely used, such as Haskell, Scheme, OcaML, and Erlang, the presence
of a REPL encourages so-called "exploratory programming," ...
What about Java and C++? Not so interactive, and still quite popular.
All you say is quite convincing. I would enjoy a REPL in Clean.
Still, I think that the main reason of the relative (un)popularity of
a programming language, Clean, or other, is the *human policy*, not the
language itself. Clean is not so visible at ICFP and some other
conferences (POPL?), and I won't continue, since all this has been
discussed a few times.
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
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