
Hi. I'd like to nominate myself for membership in the new Haskell Prime committee. About me: * I've been a Haskell user since 1997. * Back then, to learn Haskell, I read the entire Haskell 1.4 language report. * I have experience in programming languages theory and language design, with most of my research focusing on datatype-generic programming in Haskell (e.g. the stuff that is currently available as DeriveGeneric etc in GHC). * I have extensive experience in teaching Haskell, both in an academic and a commercial context. * I was a member of the Haskell 2010 committee. I'd like to contribute to the new standardization effort, and am very grateful to hvr for taking the lead. I believe that the current system of accumulating more and more language extensions is only sustainable in the long term if we shift the baseline from time to time. Even more than just making a decision on what a new "Haskell" could and should look like, I think that a likely benefit of the standardization process will be that we improve the documentation of extensions, reveal dark corners of underspecficiation and strange interactions, and perhaps can help to clean up certain things here and there. Cheers, Andres

I will self-nominate as well, but not due to experience with Haskell; rather, I can offer a pair of fresh eyes, and also the perspective of someone who has worked on language standardization in the C++ world. About me: * Haskell user since 2012, full-time Coq user since 2014. * Worked professionally as a front-end developer on several C and C++ compilers 1995-2006, 2009-2012. * Member of the ANSI/ISO C++ standards body 1997-2014. I'm not at all qualified if knowledge of historical context matters here; but perhaps so, if not having it might be useful at times. John
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Andres Löh
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John Wiegley