Regarding standardization:
My suggestion to standardize Haskell was not a near-term thing,
but rather long-term; in particular there's no sense putting a
lot of effort into standardizing 1.X if we know that 2.0 is less
than a few years away.
In any case, the process is tedious and is guaranteed to burn out
anyone involved (:-). Will Partain suggested to me an interesting
alternative:
An alternative might be to have a "Haskell Consortium", analogous to
the "X Consortium". A non-profit, vendor-neutral, etc., etc.,
organization that companies, etc., etc., can be "members" of (pay
money to). The Consortium shepherds proposals through various
well-defined stages, produces "reference implementations", and so on.
My impression is that it has worked for the X world (and the
consortium continues to push the "X envelope").
Will
Food for thought...
-Paul
