Re: Will Haskell be commercialized in the future?

2000-11-28 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Adrian Hey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, On Mon 27 Nov, Fergus Henderson wrote: Do you think that Haskell would be better without `unsafePerformIO'? Well, a sceptic like me is bound to wonder why such a non-function is provided in a purely functional language. What really worries me is that

Re: Will Haskell be commercialized in the future?

2000-11-27 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 27-Nov-2000, Benjamin L. Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity: what makes you so sure about C#? C# has some potential big problems, too: in particular, the ability to declare a portion of the code "unsafe," which can encourage unsafe programming among entrenched C/C++

Re: Will Haskell be commercialized in the future?

2000-11-27 Thread D. Tweed
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Frank Atanassow wrote: Java. Do you think that Haskell would be better without `unsafePerformIO'? Without remarking on C#, I just wanted to point out that unsafePerformIO is not part of the Haskell language... Umm, I hope that everyone in the implementors camps feels

RE: Will Haskell be commercialized in the future?

2000-11-27 Thread Michal Gajda
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Doug Ransom wrote: [stuff deleted] Well, I would prefer to master Haskell and use that as my general purpose language. Fat chance since the object models available in the microsoft common language runtime are designed for impertive programming. I often use Haskell in