>| I mean, a group who could produce a
>| competitive compiler, useful not only to people who are
>| interested in testing
>| the language, but also in using it to produce commercial and
>| industrial tools.
>
>I think that would be absolutely splendid and I would do whatever
>I could to support such a person/group/company.
>
>Simon
Then, don t you think that, if we contact software companies, we
could find some one who would buy the idea? Of course, I would
not be able to sell the idea, but there are people in the Haskell
community with a better chance to get commercial and industrial
support for Haskell. As far as I can see, Haskell is a good product
(I mean, from the point of view of an investitor).
It is used in many universities, even in my country (for instance,
it is used as introductory language in the Computer Science
Department of my own university). With a little make up, things
like Zermello-Frankel notation would give a good replacement
for SQL. A good computer algebra library (like the one that
prof. R. Malaquias is creating) would make Haskell a good
scripting language to replace things like Mathlab, Maple, etc.
I really think that it is possible to lure a software company
into investing in Haskell.
You could say that it would be better to have groups
of voluntary programmers (like the people who created Linux
and GNU), instead of companies like Microsoft. Well, I guess
that Haskell has atractive features to these groups too. For instance,
Haskell could be used to produce a free version of Maple,
Matlab, or even Labview.
I want to suggest to the Haskell community
the creation of something like a public relation interest group,
who would search support from the software industry, and
from strong teams of voluntary workers(GNU, Linux, etc.)
EdCosta
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