On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Simon Marlow wrote: > What I'd *really* like to see is a bunch of links on the front page leading > to pages that describe the main differences between Haskell and some other > language (C, Python, Java, C#, F#, ...). The easiest way to grasp what > Haskell is all about is by reference to a known baseline, and programmers > tend to have different baselines. e.g. the C page might start with > "Haskell is a functional language", whereas the Python page might start > with "Haskell is statically typed".
Python page could start with: "You like 'map', 'filter', 'for x in ...' and lambda's in Python? Then you will like to learn where Python has borrowed these features." _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
