[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: A rant against the blurb on the Haskell front page

2010-10-16 Thread Ben Franksen
wren ng thornton wrote: On 10/16/10 10:48 AM, Ben Franksen wrote: Don Stewart wrote: It is open source, and was born open source. It is the product of research. How can a language be open source, or rather, how can it *not* be open source? The point of a (programming) language is that it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: A rant against the blurb on the Haskell front page

2010-10-16 Thread Tony Morris
On 17/10/10 12:03, Ben Franksen wrote: wren ng thornton wrote: On 10/16/10 10:48 AM, Ben Franksen wrote: Don Stewart wrote: It is open source, and was born open source. It is the product of research. How can a language be open source, or rather, how can it *not*

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: A rant against the blurb on the Haskell front page

2010-10-16 Thread Ben Franksen
wren ng thornton wrote: On 10/16/10 11:22 AM, Ben Franksen wrote: Much better. Though I *do* think mentioning the main implementations and their qualities is a good thing to o, right after this: [...]The most important Haskell implementation, ghc [like to ghc page], has served as a test bed

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: A rant against the blurb on the Haskell front page

2010-10-16 Thread Jeremy Shaw
On Oct 16, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Ben Franksen wrote: Still, Haskell is an open source product doesn't sound right to me. Even Haskell is open source (without the product) has a bad ring because source is short for source code and source code is not something a programming language has. How about