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This seems like a vanishingly small set of people. You're introducing the 49th[1] most popular language to people that program in a 50+ language. If you are try

This seems like a vanishingly small set of people. You're introducing the 49th[1] most popular language to people that program in a 50+ language. If you are trying to get more converts to Haskell, I would go after a larger set of programmers. If it is just for fun, cool. [1] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

chongli 13y ago
Functional language cannibalism at its finest! Seriously, it seems like the more people agree on something the more they bikeshed over it.
- chc 13y ago
  Haskell and Erlang are different enough in large and significant ways that I don't feel like they really qualify for the "color of the bikeshed" comparison. They both fit into the "functional languages" paradigm, but then, Objective-C and Fortran both fit into the "imperative languages" paradigm.
  - troutwine 13y ago
    Being very proficient in Erlang and able to bumble about pretty effectively in Haskell, I can confidently say that while the two languages require complementary skills they target two different problem domains: Erlang's a heavy-lift rocket, Haskell's a sub-orbital rocket-plane. Well worth being at least familiar with both.
  - chongli 13y ago
    After having slept on it, I now don't know what point I was trying to make with the bikeshed comment. It doesn't make any sense now!
kungfooguru 13y ago
Hah.
pohl 13y ago
Think of it as targeted marketing: smaller set of people, but higher likelihood of buy-in.
nox_ 13y ago
You do realise that this talk was given at an Erlang-only conference which you have to pay to attend to it (well, everyone but the speakers)? How people are so focused on language popularity will never cease to amaze me.
banachtarski 13y ago
Ippolito is well known in the Erlang world for his work at Mochiweb and he is sharing with his community his explorations in Haskell. What's the matter with this? Juxtapositions between Haskell and Erlang have historically always come up so a comprehensive summary is always welcome. Also, out of all the possible epenis measurement metrics for 1337est programming languages, popularity is the absolute dumbest one and is the bastion of mediocre codemonkeys.
glesica 13y ago
So he should have out-of-the-blue applied to talk about Haskell at PyCon or whatever conference PHP developers have?

chongli 13y ago

Functional language cannibalism at its finest! Seriously, it seems like the more people agree on something the more they bikeshed over it.

chc 13y ago
Haskell and Erlang are different enough in large and significant ways that I don't feel like they really qualify for the "color of the bikeshed" comparison. They both fit into the "functional languages" paradigm, but then, Objective-C and Fortran both fit into the "imperative languages" paradigm.
- troutwine 13y ago
  Being very proficient in Erlang and able to bumble about pretty effectively in Haskell, I can confidently say that while the two languages require complementary skills they target two different problem domains: Erlang's a heavy-lift rocket, Haskell's a sub-orbital rocket-plane. Well worth being at least familiar with both.
- chongli 13y ago
  After having slept on it, I now don't know what point I was trying to make with the bikeshed comment. It doesn't make any sense now!

kungfooguru 13y ago

Hah.

pohl 13y ago

Think of it as targeted marketing: smaller set of people, but higher likelihood of buy-in.

nox_ 13y ago

You do realise that this talk was given at an Erlang-only conference which you have to pay to attend to it (well, everyone but the speakers)? How people are so focused on language popularity will never cease to amaze me.

banachtarski 13y ago

Ippolito is well known in the Erlang world for his work at Mochiweb and he is sharing with his community his explorations in Haskell. What's the matter with this? Juxtapositions between Haskell and Erlang have historically always come up so a comprehensive summary is always welcome. Also, out of all the possible epenis measurement metrics for 1337est programming languages, popularity is the absolute dumbest one and is the bastion of mediocre codemonkeys.

glesica 13y ago

So he should have out-of-the-blue applied to talk about Haskell at PyCon or whatever conference PHP developers have?