"S. Alexander Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... but it would be really usefl if someone would post a
> summary of the FP community politics ...
I am no longer "inside" Haskell-land, but it appears to me
that the "politics" are good, as good as they have been.
The GHC and Hugs people are working off the same grant; they
are cooperating happily with the Yale and York people (and
others -- even that esteemed hacker, Lennart Augustsson,
joins in the fun now and again :-).
As I've said before, to guess what might happen, you've got
to Follow The Money. No more than six people came to work
this morning planning to do nothing but Haskell(ish)
implementation work today; all of those (as far as I know)
are paid off of research grants. What those folks *really*
care about is publishing papers. The fact that they write
code and give it to you is, um, a side-effect. Interesting
problems that might lead to a paper get tackled.
Paper-unlikely items -- like writing/solidifying the many
libraries that we could use and/or documentation we'd love
to have -- tend to slip.
Yelling loudly and/or waving large {checks,cheques} can make
a difference, especially the latter.
Will
