From: HarryO <harryo@...>
Date: 2002-01-07T23:18:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Invitation to join LotY (Language of the Year) project, 2002: learning Haskell

>   LotY 2002
> 
>     This year's language is Haskell. We've chosen Haskell because it's a
>     popular functional programming language, and we're interested in
>     learning more about the functional programming paradigm. There are
>     free implementations, online tutorials, and some good Haskell books.

Excellent!  I went to the trouble of buying a book on Haskell about
a year ago, but haven't even opened it yet :-(.

Having people of the calibre of c.l.r available to discuss things
with gives me a real incentive to have a play.

What a great idea.  However, I reckon it would be even better if we
had a couple of languages to choose from.  For example, I've seen
people mention Smalltalk, Ocaml and Lua on c.l.r over the last six
months.

I'm particularly keen to play with Lua, because there's an almost
complete implementation for the palmpilot, which is another of my
addictions.

Of course, if ruby was available for the palm ... :-).