Re: Standard Haskell

[Hans Aberg]

On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>
> * Incidentally, I'm leaning towards 'Haskell 98' as the name.

  Was it Bill Gates that suggested this to you? :-)

At 12:00 +0100 98/09/08, Stephen H. Price wrote:
> a) Haskell 1998 would be more appropriate in the light of Year 2000
>    problems.

Probably in order to avoid Haskell 2000 being confused with Haskell 1900. :-)

Otherwise, since it is rather late this year, it should be called Haskell
1999. Those that use it will feel the next year that they have an
up-to-date version.

  Hans Aberg
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