On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 10:30:07PM +0100, ael via Dng wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 08:32:23AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > It's only
> > that I personally would require a higher level of confidence that
> > they're vastly superior than I would for a widely used language like
> > C++ (which I hate and don't use), Java, Go, Rust, Haskell (or is
> > Haskell now sooo 2021?), etc.
>
> Haskell is very much alive and developing! A major problem is that there is
> now essentially only one compiler, and the main authors are now employed
> by MS. It is in use by industry and there are jobs, but only elite
> people are likely to be eligible given the mathematical underpinnings of
> the language.

I had installed the Glasgow Haskell Compiler at one point.
I thought that was an open source effort. Haskell was used
by Audrey Tang, who started the Pugs project, early code and
tests prototyping Perl 6, which was renamed late renamed
Raku. At the time (2000s) her requrirements led to
significant development of Haskell, and a nice cross
fertilization between the developers of the two languages.

Haskell was in use by academics, and I'd assumed the computer
science involved was widely published.


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Joel Roth