The 22/11/11, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > Maybe not, but the person I was replying to was making the specific > argument that higher-level languages like Haskell would be more suitable > for a tool like pacman because a larger number of people would be able > to contribute. I was simply pointing out the fact that that is certainly > not the case for Haskell in particular. > > I don't think popularity is irrelevant, either, assuming you are > interested in increasing the volume of contributions to your project. If > you pick a relatively obscure language to work in, you are just creating > another barrier that makes it harder for new people to become acquainted > with the codebase. Here is a very good resume of this aspect of the discussion and we fully agree, here. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
