On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:36 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > It was raised at CUFP today that while Python has: > > Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be > used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong > support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with > extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many > Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel > the language encourages the development of higher quality, more > maintainable code. > > With the links from the start about using Python for various purposes, > along with reassuring text about licenses and so on. > > Note its all about how it can help you. > > The Haskell website has the rather strange motivational text: > > Haskell is a general purpose, purely functional programming language > featuring static typing, higher order functions, polymorphism, type > classes, and monadic effects. Haskell compilers are freely available > for almost any computer. > > Which doesn't say why these help you. > > Any suggestions on a 2 or 3 sentence spiel about what's available? > > Here's some quick points: > > General purpose: applications from OS kernels to compilers to web dev to > ... > Strong integration with other languages: FFI, and FFI binding tools > Many developer tools: debugger, profiler, code coverage, QuickCheck > Extensive libraries: central library repository, central repo hosting > Productivity, robustness, maintainability: purity, type system, etc > Parallelism! >
" Haskell is a general-purpose, pure functional programming languages that puts many interesting results from research into a practical programming language. It's features include: * Static typing with type inference: enables writing robust and fast programs quickly and makes large code bases maintainable. * Higher-order functions, polymorphism, and laziness: enables higher levels of abstraction, more composable, thus reusable code. * Purity: helps keeping your code maintainable and testable. Haskell comes with many libraries, freely available compilers for almost any computer, debuggers, profilers, code coverage and testing tools. " That seems short enough to me. Things that could find their way in are: monads: for the embedded DSL angle paralellism: mention STM and high-level combinators _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe