Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why Haskell?

2006-08-07 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
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

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why Haskell?

2006-08-07 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
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,

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why Haskell?

2006-08-07 Thread Johan Tibell
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

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why Haskell?

2006-08-07 Thread Johan Tibell
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