[Haskell-cafe] Re: Research language vs. professional language

On 2008-09-01, Don Stewart wrote:

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On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Jonathan Cast wrote:

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This concept of `day-to-day work' is a curious one. Haskell is not a mature language, and probably shouldn't ever be one.

I see where you are coming from here, but I think that train has already started and can't be stopped.

Yeah, it's too late. Too many people have their pay checks riding on GHC, the Hackage library set (now up to 740 libraries and tools!), and the continued development of the language in general.

If Haskell's not "mature" yet, then perhaps it has reached its early twenties, with an reliable heavy duty optimizing compiler, fast runtime, large library set, standard documentation, testing, debugging and packaging tools, and large community.

And a community with a lot of energy.

We're serious about this thing.

So, what fills its shoes as a great research language with great tools? -- Aaron Denney -><-