On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 07:43:30PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Neil Mitchell wrote: >> HI >> >> >>>> Flippi (google: Haskell Flippi) >>>> >>> ...and yet haskell.org uses WikiMedia? (Which is written in something >>> bizzare like Perl...) >>> >> >> Yes, but WikiMedia is a result of years of work, Flippi is a lot less. >> Wikipedia uses WikiMedia - its a tried and proven solution. >> > > Well, I guess... > > I just thought, you know, the Tcl wiki is written in Tcl, why isn't the > Haskell wiki written in Haskell? Hey, aren't we trying to tell people is a > *useful* language that people should learn and use? ;-)
Actually, we aren't. You might not have been able to tell, but a core goal of our community is to stay small and avoid success at all costs; our language is not practical, not designed to be practical, and if it ever becomes practical, it will have done so only by a terrible streak of bad luck. Remember, success breeds inertia, and inertia would ruin our fundamental goal of being an agile research language. :) Stefan
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