ptwaugh: > I agree with pretty much everything you said, and I'm definately not > wanting to be political. Just from a pratical point, we need to > produce code, and darcs is just a tool to help, not where we could > devote a huge amount of time learning yet another language if you get > my meaning. On the other hand if it were in one of about 15 others > then we wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel so to speak. > > While I'm sure you can do what you said in Haskell, if I take two > programers who know C++, or java, and ask them to get something done, > but ask one to do it in Haskell, you can guess who's going to finish > first.
We'd have the opposite experience at Galois. If you've a team of Haskell programmers, making them use C++ or Java is going to drain productivity pretty dramatically. It does take some training to learn to really exploit the high ground Haskell offers though. -- Don _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
