Re:Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell
by caconym_ on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @11:05AM
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> Then if we want to disprove the null hypothesis there we give one programmer brainfuck and the other Python
Hence "reasonably well supported modern general-purpose programming languages".
I think this null hypothesis is where most sufficiently jaded working programmers end up, and business leaders without a programming background will start there because it's all Greek to them. I'm not here to prove its correctness, just to raise it as a very real factor working against Haskell's adoption.
Nothing would delight me more than for somebody to come along and unequivocally prove that Haskell is a silver bullet. But the point here, really, is that nobody has yet.
Hence "reasonably well supported modern general-purpose programming languages".
I think this null hypothesis is where most sufficiently jaded working programmers end up, and business leaders without a programming background will start there because it's all Greek to them. I'm not here to prove its correctness, just to raise it as a very real factor working against Haskell's adoption.
Nothing would delight me more than for somebody to come along and unequivocally prove that Haskell is a silver bullet. But the point here, really, is that nobody has yet.