From: dblack@... Date: 2002-12-18T14:53:35+09:00 Subject: Re: OT: Functional Language Recommendation Hi -- On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Shashank Date wrote: > > "Dan Schmidt" wrote in message > > Haskell is really beautiful and elegant but it can > > take more effort to write real-world apps because everything must be > > expressed purely functionally. > > For this reason alone (takes more effort to write) , I have always wondered > why Haskell has been endorsed as the language of the year at PragProg. I > would have thought O'Caml would be more "pragmmatic" in that sense. It's not exactly an endorsement; "Language of the Year" isn't an award or anything like that, it's just a language-learning initiative. The reason Haskell was chosen is that the people who started up the "Language of the Year" project (me and Chad Fowler) wanted to learn Haskell :-) The whole thing is based on an idea by the PragProgs, who also offered to host the project. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav