Sunday, September 28, 2008

Simon Peyton Jones Interview

From : http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1974033854


"Was Haskell created simply as an open standard for purely functional programming languages?

Haskell isn’t a standard in the ISO standard sense – it’s not formally standardized at all. It started as a group of people each wanting to use a common language, rather than having their own languages that were different in minor ways. So if that’s an open standard, then yes, that’s what we were trying to do. "

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