From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-12-18T18:11:54+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Functional Language Recommendation

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:49:13PM +0900, Shashank Date wrote:
> 
> <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 ...
> 

Japanese is always a very strong candidate.

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