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1994 was well before the IO monad became the standard IO paradigm for Haskell, and a year before there was even a proposal on the table for monadic IO for Haske
by saosebastiao 10y ago
1994 was well before the IO monad became the standard IO paradigm for Haskell, and a year before there was even a proposal on the table for monadic IO for Haskell. It makes me wonder what the language was like back then and whether the results would be repeatable with today's language.
- the_af 10y agoSure! I think Haskell would fare pretty well today, because the essential aspects haven't changed. It's still very suitable for prototyping and exploratory programming. Of course, today it would have to go toe to toe against modern dynamic languages. In this case it'd be essential to demonstrate running code, which is arguably a huge advantage of static typing over dynamic typing; if you're only comparing source code, dynamic languages can get away with being terse and claiming "trust me, it works". I imagine Haskell would still leave modern C++ coughing dust at the start line :)