On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>
> * Incidentally, I'm leaning towards 'Haskell 98' as the name.
>
A couple of minor points:
a) Haskell 1998 would be more appropriate in the light of Year 2000
problems.
b) Dating product names like this tends to give the impression that this
is a snapshot of a continually developing environment, such as Office,
which gains bells and whistles every year.
However, Standard Haskell is to be a solid specification, which will
be largely unchanging. Couldn't this just be named 'Haskell' with no
numbering, or maybe 'Haskell!' to emphasize the solidness of the
specification.
Perhaps 'Just Haskell' is a neat little pun if a more elaborate naming
scheme is required.
Ste.
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