[barcampgr] Topics

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Fri Jul 10 07:58:02 PDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:50 -0400, Zach Dennis wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Adam Tauno
> Williams<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 09:59 -0400, John Van Enk wrote:
> >> Would any one be interested in Haskell + Light Weight Domain Specific Languages?
> > Interested, yes.  I hear about these all the time;  I'd really like to
> > see a demonstration where the productivity gain justifies the existence
> > of yet-another-language.
> Sounds like a good session topic. I'd like to sit in on this kind of
> discussion (not necessarily pertaining strictly to Haskell, but *why*
> languages need to be justified in order to exist).

Why?  Because languages require resources to be developed, learned, and
most importantly, maintained (code in those languages, specially when
proficient developers may be scarce).

I don't think the "existence" needs to be justified so much as the "use
of"




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