[Haskell-cafe] big discussion about Haskell on Reddit

2009-03-15 Thread FFT
I noticed that on Programming Reddit, where I lurk, there is a big
discussion about the disconnect between how much Haskell is advocated
there and the number of applications written in it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/84sqt/dear_reddit_i_am_seeing_12_articles_in/

The difficulty of reasoning about memory and CPU-efficiency in
nontrivial programs was suggested as an explanation.
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] big discussion about Haskell on Reddit

2009-03-15 Thread Don Stewart
fft1976:
 I noticed that on Programming Reddit, where I lurk, there is a big
 discussion about the disconnect between how much Haskell is advocated
 there and the number of applications written in it.
 
 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/84sqt/dear_reddit_i_am_seeing_12_articles_in/
 
 The difficulty of reasoning about memory and CPU-efficiency in
 nontrivial programs was suggested as an explanation.

As well as a million other crazy things, sadly.

Reminds me of:

http://xkcd.com/386/

Just to cheer people up, there are now 1124 packages on
hackage.haskell.org, and on average ~10 releases of Haskell apps and
libs are happening each day:

http://galois.com/~dons/images/hackage-daily-graph.png

-- Don (goes back to writing some code)
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