Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Don Stewart
patai_gergely: > > > I would concentrate on the fact that when you use Haskell, you write > > > code that is less prone to errors and bugs. When you write a program > > > in Haskell and it finally compiles, chances are that there are far > > > less bugs than in a program written in another language

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Matthias Görgens
Dear Gergely, Okasaki's "Purely Functional Data Structures" is a treasure trove of interesting things to demonstrate Haskell on. Especially the data structures based on numerical representations (skew binary numbers and so on) appealed to my mathematical side. Matthias. _

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Patai Gergely
> > I would concentrate on the fact that when you use Haskell, you write > > code that is less prone to errors and bugs. When you write a program > > in Haskell and it finally compiles, chances are that there are far > > less bugs than in a program written in another language > > the question is h

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Max Cantor
Any chance of renaming it to "Advocacy"? On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:42 PM, Cristiano Paris wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Cristiano Paris wrote: ... Why don't we create a specific Wiki page about "Haskell advocation", http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Advocation Cristiano __

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Cristiano Paris
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Cristiano Paris wrote: > ... > Why don't we create a specific Wiki page about "Haskell advocation", http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Advocation Cristiano ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.ha

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Cristiano Paris
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > ... > the question is how to justify this in 1 hour. technical people don't > buy such arguments with justification. but if it will be done, it > would be best presentation possible I think it's important to elaborate on this. Why don't we

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] What to say about Haskell?

2009-07-14 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Cristiano, Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 6:01:14 PM, you wrote: > When you create the presentation, please consider the big picture of > Haskell, not only its technological features like laziness, > curryfication, HOF, monadic syntax, type inference, type classes and > so on. > I would concentra