Re: [Haskell-cafe] #haskell works

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:46:43 +0300 Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

you may believe in what you want. i prefer to say about real situation. if it will be possible to quickly write good Haskell compiler, it was be written many years ago

No-one is writing a commercial Haskell compiler yet (although there is at least one commercial Haskell-like language). What I mean is, the amount of "commercial-oriented" funding spent on GHC (as opposed to the "research-oriented" funding spent by Microsoft Research and various research bodies) is, as far as I know, zero. Incentives matter. If there were a commercial Haskell compiler, maybe we would see faster progress. -- Robin