On 2008-09-01, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ryani.spam: >> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Jonathan Cast >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > This concept of `day-to-day work' is a curious one. Haskell is not a >> > mature language, and probably shouldn't ever be one. >> >> I see where you are coming from here, but I think that train has >> already started and can't be stopped. > > Yeah, it's too late. Too many people have their pay checks riding on > GHC, the Hackage library set (now up to 740 libraries and tools!), and > the continued development of the language in general. > > If Haskell's not "mature" yet, then perhaps it has reached its early > twenties, with an reliable heavy duty optimizing compiler, fast runtime, > large library set, standard documentation, testing, debugging and > packaging tools, and large community. > > And a community with a lot of energy. > > We're serious about this thing.
So, what fills its shoes as a great research language with great tools? -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe