Re: [Haskell-cafe] SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award

2011/6/9 Stephen Tetley :

On 9 June 2011 09:02, Yves Parès wrote:

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Were templates an original feature of C++ or did they appear in a revision of the langage ? Because C++ appeared in 1982 and Haskell in 1990.

Templates were a later addition to C++. There is a strong tradition of generics in OO and related languages that seems rather unrelated to typed functional programming - ADA, Eiffel and particularly CLU.

Note that the more recent C++ concepts are related to (and inspired by?) Haskell type classes. See Bernardy et al.'s interesting paper "A comparison of c++ concepts and haskell type classes": http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1411324

Congratulations to the Simon's of course, kudos _and_ escudos from the ACM!

Idem. The Simons, GHC and the associated research very much deserve this award. Dominique