On 04/10/2010 08:29 PM, nemesis wrote:

> In general, I tend to dig best languages not designed by committee...
> even benevolent dictator model is better. :)

In general, I don't give a fig how the language was designed, I just 
care about what the end result is like.

(In a similar way, I don't care who wrote a song, I just care what it 
sounds like.)

> OTOH, haskell, as scheme, is a language focused more on programming
> language theory research rather than practical, industry-wide goals...

Uh... that's slightly amusing, if you think about it.

Haskell was created explicitly because there were already a half-dozen 
identical languages with different syntax, and this was diluting efforts 
to use them. So Haskell was created as one standard language to replace 
all the others. Which is a pretty practical reason, actually...

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