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From: Sebastian Sylvan <syl...@dtek.chalmers.se>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: Why isn't Haskell mainstream?
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:19:04 +0200
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Elveto wrote:
> Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
> 
> > There are already a ton of scripting languages that have many specific
> > libraries, (e.g. Python, Ruby) we don't need another one.
> > There are, however, not as many truly high-level general purpose languages
> > (like C# and C++, only higher level).
> 
> :) please define your metric.

=)

Uhm... Time-to-market? Lackof resemblence with machine code?


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