On 26/07/2013 11:45 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> I'm going to talk about Haskell. Specifically, I'm going to implement a
>> trivial Mandelbrot renderer in Haskell.
>
> Then you wonder why functional programming isn't more popular.

Gabe Newell said something similar. "Whenever I see Haskell code 
examples, they're always utterly trivial crap like Fibonacci numbers or 
the factorial function, not large, complex real-world stuff. Haskell may 
be good for small toy programs, but it's useless in the real-world."

Which is a bit like saying "Whenever I see C example code, it's always 
trivial stuff like Hello World, or Quicksort, not large, complex 
real-world stuff. C may be good for small toy programs, but it's useless 
in the real-world."

*Obviously* in introductory exploration of any programming language is 
going to consist of trivial stuff that's not useful in the real-world. 
They're called "example programs" for a reason. :-P

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