I personally lean towards Haskell 98 myself, but just for
grins (and to hopefully offload this topic from the list):
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Assuming that the Haskell standard will be
> People seem to be forgetting the long-standing tradition of Algol (60),
> Fortran (66, 77, 90)
...not to mention Algol W, S-algol, PS-algol and H Level FORTRAN...
If Simon worked for IBM he could call it FP/I, in the tradition of PL/I. So
why not Haskell-1, to be followed by Haskell-2, or even
The problem of naming the ehm... Standard Haskell or whatever it becomes,
seems to be very important for some members of this list. Well, OK.
Just a short story. Do you remember Cyber 205, a nice pipelined mainframe
manufactured by CDC?
It was *the* successor of Cyber 203, which was a failure.
People seem to be forgetting the long-standing tradition of Algol (60),
Fortran (66, 77, 90) and, no doubt, many other fine languages in their
use of 2-digit year qualifiers. 98/99 sounds good to me.
>On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
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>> * Incidentally, I'm leaning towards 'Haske
Why not Haskell I?
(as the first "standard" form of the language)...
--Artie
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
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> * Incidentally, I'm leaning towards 'Haskell 98' as the name.
Was it Bill Gates that suggested this to you? :-)
At 12:00 +0100 98/09/08, Stephen H. Price wrote:
> a) Haskell 1998 would be more appropriate in the light of Year 2000
>problems
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
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> * Incidentally, I'm leaning towards 'Haskell 98' as the name.
>
A couple of minor points:
a) Haskell 1998 would be more appropriate in the light of Year 2000
problems.
b) Dating product names like this tends to give the impression that this
Haskell 98 (or 99) sounds just right to me. Please, don't fix on a name
that doesn't have a number attached to it -- for example, realistically,
this version will ultimately not really be "standard"; we'll most likely
want to settle on a new version in a few more years.
-Paul
Naw. Let's go for "Haskell 00". ;-)
--Joe
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