
26 Aug
2007
26 Aug
'07
4:38 a.m.
Chris wrote:
I would personally say Haskell 98 is "real" Haskell (well, until Haskell... I believe it does work as an offline downloadable tool... http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/vital/install/index.html
With "real Haskell" I ment strong type checking and indentation for determining scope; without the former, it becomes a different experience IMO. Avoiding runtime errors because types don't match is one the main advantages of Haskell; without this, I'm afraid it is difficult to get a good feeling of the Haskell programming language, be it Haskell98 Peter