Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Clean on 9 Jan 2000 > [..] > many other people there are some serious problems with using a > language whose only implementation is not free software[1]. > > Why should anyone want to tie themselves to a language with only one > implementation, where you don't get the source code, where the > provider insists that you may not share it (or your improvements to > it) with others, where you are dependent on a corporation for support > and which isn't available on all the platforms you might work on ? I told this to many people. Nobody appreciated. A C implementation without sources, it does have sense. But Clean, or even Haskell ones do not. I mean, for the users that design serious programs. Because to forget of the tool sources, one needs several highly reliable implementations. Once I had lost more that one year of programming after the tool developers stopped the support, with a couple of nasty bugs remaining. ------------------ Sergey Mechveliani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
