[darcs-users] GHC and Darcs

[Don Stewart]

ptwaugh:
> I agree with pretty much everything you said, and I'm definately not
> wanting to be political. Just from a pratical point, we need to
> produce code, and darcs is just a tool to help, not where we could
> devote a huge amount of time learning yet another language if you get
> my meaning. On the other hand if it were in one of about 15 others
> then we wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel so to speak.
> 
> While I'm sure you can do what you said in Haskell, if I take two
> programers who know C++, or java, and ask them to get something done,
> but ask one to do it in Haskell, you can guess who's going to finish
> first.

We'd have the opposite experience at Galois. If you've a team of Haskell
programmers, making them use C++ or Java is going to drain productivity
pretty dramatically.

It does take some training to learn to really exploit the high ground
Haskell offers though.

-- Don