The situation would change dramatically if say, a Microsoft, picked it up
and ran with it. But they wouldn't do it unless they had full control over
the language which the Haskell community wouldn't allow.
Every popular language, except Java, is in some respect "public
domain". The
From: Dinesh Vadhia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fw: Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:49:07 -0700
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The situation would change dramatically if say, a Microsoft, picked it up
and ran with it. But they wouldn't do it unless they had full control over
Dinesh Vadhia wrote:
The recent thread of notes to "Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?"
bears out what I've been thinking over the past year about Haskell which is
... "How on Earth is this Haskell stuff, not withstanding its merits, ever
going to make it in the real world?". From
This note from Simon says it all precisely and what I alluded to in my
earlier note ...
Dinesh
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I've been on the Haskell list for over a year now as a bystander interested
in this new area of functional programming. My background is on the
marketing side of the software business and have worked for some of the
large ones (but not Microsoft!).
The recent thread of notes to "Could Haskell
I've been on the Haskell list for over a year now as a bystander interested
in this new area of functional programming. My background is on the
marketing side of the software business and have worked for some of the
large ones (but not Microsoft!).
The recent thread of notes to "Could Haskell
