Hello Piotr,
Monday, August 7, 2006, 5:29:10 PM, you wrote:
Having someone pay a group of people to hack on Haskell
implementations would indeed be desirable. Without knowing the details
Ubuntu looks like a promising model. If we could just find a willing
billionaire out there...
If I
Hello Johan,
Monday, August 7, 2006, 5:25:34 PM, you wrote:
think that Haskell would benefit from moving some commonly used
functionality such as HTTP, SQL and XML support into the standard
libraries.
http, smtp and other networking protocols - yes. xml/sql is too large
things. actually,
If I were a billionaire I'd love to sponsor haskell development.
Hmm, I'll add it to my goal list ;)
too late - GHC is many years funded by MS Research
I'm aware of that, I was just making a call for more money to deal
with organizational stuff (running haskell.org, creating and
maintaining
http, smtp and other networking protocols - yes. xml/sql is too large
things. actually, haxml package is already included in GHC sources
distribution and i think that it should be excluded from there because
it's too large, far more than any other package bundled with GHC
The problem I'm having