Hello Ross, Saturday, March 25, 2006, 4:16:01 AM, you wrote:
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:47:09PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
I think it would be a mistake to relegate concurrency to an addendum; it is a central feature of the language, and in fact is one area where Haskell (strictly speaking GHC) is really beginning to demonstrate significant advantages over other languages. We should make the most of it.
Essential for many applications, certainly, but central? How can you say that?
it becomes central language feature just because it's much easier to write concurrent programs in Haskell than in other languages and because ghc's implementation of "user-level threads" is blazing fast, outperforming closest competitor in hundreds (!) times in the Language Shootout concurrency testing so, the concurrent programming, may be, the only area at now, where real-world, commercial programmers should prefer Haskell over all other languages. in this light, leaving the concurrency outside of language standard will decrease our chances of pushing the language to the commercial arena and gathering "critical mass" of Haskellers -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com