As promised, here are the results for the straw poll for the name of the proposed "standard" Haskell (write-ins included): Haskell 98 13 Haskell 1.5 4 Haskell I 2 Stable Haskell 2 Interim Haskell 1 Standard Haskell 1 Haskell A 1 Haskell B 1 Functional Haskell 1 Haskell 2 1 Haskell 99 1 For brevity, I'm including some "reasons for choice" only for Haskell 98 and Haskell 1.5 (which was a write-in choice because I inadvertently omitted it): Haskell 98: follows programming language tradition (e.g., Algol 60 and 68) (5 mentions) easy to say and write (2 mentions) familiar naming scheme (e.g., Windows) avoids name clash with any future "standard" (2 mentions) extensible naming scheme (2 mentions) most humorous response (from Paul Hudak): "It will be more attractive to people using Windows 98. :-)" Haskell 1.5: it's a cleanup of Haskell 1.4 consistent with previous names (4 mentions) -- Emery -- Emery Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Parallel Programming http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/emery | & Multiprocessing MP Groups The University of Texas at Austin | Dept. of Computer Sciences
