>Date: Wed, 01 APR 1998 23:02:30 +0100 (BST)
>From: Adrian Hey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Press Release
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Resent-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 23:18:49 +0100
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>Yippee!, at last Haskell enters the real world.
>
>This is probably the best news I've heard in a long time. I've been waiting
>years for a decent implementation of decent (I.E. Lazy Functional) language
>for mainstream PC applications S/W. I really hope MS can deliver.
>
>Why has this taken so long?
>
>Can any body tell me when can I get to try the developers goodies MS are
>promising?
>
>I never thought I would find myself saying nice things about MS, but on
>this occasion I feel compelled to applaud MS for this very smart move
>and wish them every success in burying Java.
>
>P.S. Isn't it about time the haskell.org website wasn't still
>under construction?
>--
>Adrian Hey
Oh dear, silly me, I'm letting my enthusiasm get the better of me!
I'm glad you all can't see my red face. I'm afraid I'm one one of those
scatter brained techno nurds that never know the correct date anyway.
This time I paid the price!
I suppose I should have guessed this news was too good to be true.
It didn't sound like the Microsoft we've all come to know and love :-)
Still perhaps it will be true one day. In the mean time I'll just have to
struggle on with C++ and fantasise about Haskell. Have any of you Haskell
fans noticed that Clean is almost usable and available for MacOS & Win32?
I know UNIX is the OS of choice for academia but an awful lot of us
don't target our apps at it.
--
Adrian Hey
