| > > >> Look at the popularity of PERL
| > > >> for example. That is one thing I will never understand.
| > > I'm sure I will get flamed to a crisp for this, but...
| > > I think PERL can be quite nice when you want a quick
| > > hack that will do something useful.
|
| Yes, Perl is a great prototyping language.
Can I respectfully suggest that comp.lang.functional would be
a better place to have this discussion than the Haskell mailing list?
(Earlier I proposed splitting the Haskell list into a high-bandwidth
list and a low-bandwidth one, but then the traffic dropped sharply
and so I did nothing further. The best outcome would be, I think,
that we keep just one list, but its bandwidth is low enough that
people don't get buried.)
Simon
