On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Bartosz Milewski wrote:
You might have seen a few post by me mentioning FP Complete and asked yourself the question: Who is this guy and what is FP Complete?
Yes. ;) I haven't been active in the Haskell community, as I'm a relative newcomer
to Haskell. I am better known in the C++ community where I've been promoting functional-style programming and the use of Haskell for modelling difficult aspects of template metaprogramming.
Great! We can always use more people to bridge the divide, so to speak. It was therefore natural for me to join a newly founded company, FP
Complete, whose goal is to commercialize Haskell. I believe that now is the right time for Haskell to become a strong software industry player, especially that functional programming is being widely recognized as the answer to the recent multicore and GPU explosion.
Also great! We need more companies to see the light and start building better software. I should mention that the support from the part of the Haskell community
that we have so far contacted has been overwhelmingly positive. We have Simon P-J's blessing, we are in close collaboration with Well Typed, we have friends at Galois, Parallel Scientific, Amgen, and many other Haskell shops. Hopefully you will hear from and about us more often in the future.
Looking forward to it. Welcome! Regards, Sean