<h.v### [at] webconde>  wrote:

> do you know the haskell (funcitonal) programming language?

Why do people always have to mention these "strange" languages? :-)

If I hadn't had to try Haskell, maybe I would be more favorable of its (I have
to admit not too bad) implementation of some old ideas.  Nevertheless, like
all these odd languages, it is not even close to the smooth* learning curve of
the traditional programming languages (which have proven they are capable of
more than a few hundred lines of nice examples how compact they can solve a
problem, which seems to be the common reason to invent a new language) or some
even more high-level languages specifically designed for end user programming.

After all, for someone with no programming experience the elegance an expert
can find in a language hardly matters.  What is far more important is a close
to zero learning curve and very good feedback (and i.e. the common Haskell
error messages are more than cryptic IMHO, even compared to POV-Ray).

    Thorsten

* For various reasons, one being that for "popular" languages there are
usually very good books, while for less popular languages there are no or very
few mostly useless books.

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