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What's up with Clean these days? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_(programming_language)
by sehugg 9y ago
What's up with Clean these days?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_(programming_language)
- fusiongyro 9y agoI haven't heard mum about it since 2006. Wikipedia says the last stable release was in 2011. I guess the market for proprietary Miranda derivatives fell apart after _Real World Haskell_ was published?
- srean 9y agoI wish Clean caught on more. I find unique types a little easier to think about. A version of Clean could/can(?) compile Haskell too. If I recall correctly, Clean is BSD licensed. By 'proprietary' do you mean their main source of funding was building proprietary solutions over what they release open source ? They did seem they were more of a 'windows first' group, but I may be wrong about that.
- maartenh 9y agoFrom what I've heard in the hallways, the people driving the language from the Radboud University retired.
- Nokinside 9y agoNothing it seems. Too bad. Clean's graph rewriting and unique types approach was very good and practical direction for functional programming. Declaring unique types allows functional paradigm in much lower lever programming and it's easy to grasp. (it's part of the linear types paradigm).