On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 22:34 -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
There's something I'm missing in all of this.
Perl is in the process of rebooting itself (perl6 is syntactically very different from perl5; the closest it's ever previously gotten to this kind of radical change was the change from ' to :: as the package separator). Perl5 will continue to exist, and probably even be maintained. So why is it not possible to declare Haskell98 and Haskell10 (or whatever Haskell' becomes) as stable, maintained languages for production use, then reboot the Haskell development process?
Right, that's what I want. (Although perl6 has been a long time in coming). Haskell is, far and away, the best name I can think of for the next mainstream research language. I just don't think it's going to happen.
In fact, I thought that was the reason Haskell98 support is retained in Haskell compilers?
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