are you a student (undergrad or grad) or faculty (junior or senior)? These are all very different scenarios and accordingly different goals are realistic.
For example, if you're a student, it might be more realistic to start with finding a professor who will be willing to supervise an independent study class. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Petr Pudlak <d...@pudlak.name> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to convince people at our university to pay more attention to > functional languages, especially Haskell. Their arguments were that > > (1) Functional programming is more academic than practical. > (2) They are using logic programming already (Prolog); why is Haskell > better than Prolog (or generally a functional language better than a > logic programming language)? > > (1) is easier to answer, there are a lots of applications at HaskellWiki, > or > elsewhere around the Internet, written in Haskell, OCaml, etc. Still, I > welcome comments on your experience, for example, if you have written some > larger-scale application in Haskell (or another a functional language) that > is > not at HaskellWiki, and perhaps if/why you would recommend doing so to > other > people. > > (2) is harder for me, since I've never programmed in Prolog or another > language > for logic programming. I'd be happy if anyone who is experienced in both > Prolog > and Haskell could elaborate the differences, pros & cons etc. > > Thanks, > Petr > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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