| >There is no "big deal". You're taking my facetious use of the word "wizard" the wrong way And your taking my statement the wrong way. If there really is no big deal then there is really no big deal in me telling you and you actually learning it. >If Haskell already was popular, it would be an entirely different argument. If we are here to debate about popularity, then you win buddy. Haskell is not popular. That much is obvious. Every language starts somewhere and I'm here to promote why it should be popular. If you can't buy into that then well there's no point in talking. I get your point. Haskell is exotic and niche. But this is already stupendously obvious so why bring it up. If you don't want to use it for popularity reasons that's a valid point. But that does not discount the technical merits that lend positive credence to why you should use it. 90 percent less bugs then JavaScript is a technical feature that has profound impact on business as does 90 percent less developers. > if it really makes for such vast increases in its productivity, why aren't those Haskell programmers dominating software development? JavaScript was a language designed in a week and is largely universally considered to be a terrible language. Why does it dominate the software ecosystem? Because of circumstance and ease of adoption, that's it. Adoption rate isn't an accurate metric on productivity of a language. In fact these studies on productivity have been done before. The language that won was smalltalk. >At least consider the possibility that there's some insight there that you don't quite grasp yet. Why don't you tell me what your thinking rather then ask me to consider something that exists only in your mind. >"Buy the product in order to see why it's so great!" would be a terrible sales pitch, if you catch my drift. I do catch your drift. And you're right. Unfortunately my arguments don't seem to away you... If arguments don't away you than trying it is logically the only way left. But guess what free trial! Life time access. If you don't like it or if you like it, it's still yours, free! |