Sean Leather <leat...@cs.uu.nl> writes: > Personally, I prefer to separate the name of the language from the name of > the development tools, because I think that causes unnecessary confusion. > End-users do not need to care about Haskell, unlike Java since they need the > JRE, so potential developers and students are the audience. This group needs > the Haskell Platform for developing with Haskell, and having the tools > referred to as "Haskell Platform" is clear enough (imho) without having to > call the tools "Haskell."
I think the partial confusion here is that most "newer" languages have the same name as their defacto implementation (Python [though the implementation is technically CPython], Perl, Ruby, etc.). Whilst Haskell has other implementations apart from GHC, none of the others are as featureful, etc. So pretty much if you want "Haskell", then you want GHC. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
