Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell 2014

Even if there's not much interest in a new standard, is there any hope for turning on "benign" language extensions by default anytime soon? It seems like unnecessary boilerplate. Patrick On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:25 PM, David Feuer wrote:

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:01 AM, wrote:

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What counts for the development and growth of a programming language is the community behind it, and Haskell is blessed with some really amazing people.

Most of those amazing people care more about keeping the language growing than about rigid adherence to a standard or complete backwards compatibility.

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However, it remains true that some companies expect to outlive their suppliers, and that the existence of a standard gives them some confidence that avoiding things outside it will reduce their risks. That's all.

Since all Haskell implementations of any significance, historical or otherwise, are open source, this is a red herring. If the GHC project dies, anyone relying on GHC is free to continue development themselves.

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