People seem to be forgetting the long-standing tradition of Algol (60),
Fortran (66, 77, 90) and, no doubt, many other fine languages in their
use of 2-digit year qualifiers. 98/99 sounds good to me.
>On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>>
>> * Incidentally, I'm leaning towards 'Haskell 98' as the name.
>
> Was it Bill Gates that suggested this to you? :-)
>
>At 12:00 +0100 98/09/08, Stephen H. Price wrote:
>> a) Haskell 1998 would be more appropriate in the light of Year 2000
>> problems.
>
>Probably in order to avoid Haskell 2000 being confused with Haskell 1900. :-)
>
>Otherwise, since it is rather late this year, it should be called Haskell
>1999. Those that use it will feel the next year that they have an
>up-to-date version.
>
> Hans Aberg
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