Ian Jackson defends Haskell, and attacks Clean for "obvious reasons"
Clean is not free, etc. :
The operating system I run on my computers, Debian (www.debian.org),
consists only of software and documentation to which I have (or can
download) the source code, which I can use at work as well
Subject: Re: Clean and Haskell
Steve Tarsk wrote:
T I just want to say that Haskell is a fat old slow
T dinosaur compared with Clean. Download Clean at
T www.cs.kun.nl/~clean and get rid of your Haskell
T installation.
T
T __
T Do You Yahoo!?
T
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
Haskell.org is now back up again.
Simon
The Haskell 1.4 Report states that instances of MonadZero and
MonadPlus should satisfy these laws:
m zero = zero
zero = m = zero
m ++ zero = m
zero ++ m = m
Now that MonadPlus has been moved out of the Prelude (and has changed
the names of all its operators), I see that
Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes ("Re: Clean and Haskell"):
Ian Jackson:
The operating system I run on my computers, Debian (www.debian.org),
consists only of software and documentation to which I have (or can
download) the source code, which I can use at work as well at home, to
which I can
George Russell wrote:
Matt Harden wrote:
I don't think that's really true. If I understand it correctly, the
state can be any type; it doesn't have to fit in, say, an Int or other
small type. I think the Mersenne Twister could be implemented as an
instance of Random.RandomGen. The
