On Sat Jan 31 2015 at 01:43:03 AM davean wrote:

Personally, I want a language thats good to use. That means constant improvement. My life gets better by far more then it costs me to update some code in fairly trivial ways when the language or libraries change. In fact, Haskell makes updates easy. Why should we instead build up the need to replace the language with a new one, how is that better? [...]

[...] Lets not tear our hair out because someone made a bad decision in the 1980s and now we're stuck with it. I've done that. It was terrible. The world doesn't need another language that makes that mistake.

+1, Haskell98 is not a suicide pact.