Re: [Haskell-cafe] Research language vs. professional language

On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 01:20 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:

ryani.spam:

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On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Jonathan Cast wrote:

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This concept of `day-to-day work' is a curious one. Haskell is not a mature language, and probably shouldn't ever be one.

I see where you are coming from here, but I think that train has already started and can't be stopped.

Yeah, it's too late. Too many people have their pay checks riding on GHC, the Hackage library set (now up to 740 libraries and tools!), and the continued development of the language in general.

If Haskell's not "mature" yet, then perhaps it has reached its early twenties, [..]

Depending on when you count from, Haskell -is- in its early twenties or soon will be.