Michael Vanier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We always say that Haskell is named for Haskell Curry
because his work provided the logical/computational
foundations for the language. How exactly is this the case?
Specifically, does anyone claim that Curry's combinatorial
logic is more relevant to
Jon Fairbairn wrote:
If not, why isn't Haskell called "Alonzo"? ;-)
I think that was one of the suggestions made among many
others. Haskell has the advantage of sounding less like a
person's name (which might have been why Curry didn't like
it)
Actually, the more
Paul Hudak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actually, the more compelling reason we chose Haskell
over Alonzo was that, at the time, Church was alive --
he died in 1995 -- whereas Curry was not -- he died in
1982. We felt uncomfortable naming the language after
someone who still alive (however
