Sounds exciting! On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Bartosz Milewski <bart...@fpcomplete.com>wrote:
> You might have seen a few post by me mentioning FP Complete and asked > yourself the question: Who is this guy and what is FP Complete? > > I haven't been active in the Haskell community, as I'm a relative newcomer > to Haskell. I am better known in the C++ community where I've been > promoting functional-style programming and the use of Haskell for modelling > difficult aspects of template metaprogramming. I've been involved in > discussing the support for concurrency and parallelism in C++; which, by > the way, is ages behind what Haskell has to offer. > > It was therefore natural for me to join a newly founded company, FP > Complete, whose goal is to commercialize Haskell. I believe that now is the > right time for Haskell to become a strong software industry player, > especially that functional programming is being widely recognized as the > answer to the recent multicore and GPU explosion. > > I can't be much more specific about what the role of FP Complete will be > in making Haskell an industrial success because our plans are still > evolving. We should be ready to makes some announcement shortly. > > I should mention that the support from the part of the Haskell community > that we have so far contacted has been overwhelmingly positive. We have > Simon P-J's blessing, we are in close collaboration with Well Typed, we > have friends at Galois, Parallel Scientific, Amgen, and many other Haskell > shops. Hopefully you will hear from and about us more often in the future. > > -- > [:Bartosz Milewski:] > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/**mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe<http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe> > -- adit.io
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