From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2002-12-18T15:49:13+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Functional Language Recommendation


<dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote in message
> 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.

Ok, may be "endorse"  is not the right term to use. I meant to say
"suggested", "recommended" or something to that effect. But, yes, I was
assuming a little more that just "hosting the project" ;-)

>  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 :-)

So again, why Haskell ? What was (is??) the lure ?  Even Matz seemed to
endo..., sorry, like (?) the idea.(ruby-talk: 47758). Or was he just
referring to your project on PragProg ?

Also, are you guys thinking of LOTY for 2003 ? Just curious ...

-- shanko