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over a long enough time frame, it seems his view is standard. nowadays, there's not really a haskell standard other than ghc. there's other haskells than ghc (e
by ferzul 7y ago
over a long enough time frame, it seems his view is standard. nowadays, there's not really a haskell standard other than ghc. there's other haskells than ghc (e.g. ghcjs) but they're all forks of ghc. research is achieved by enabling extra features
(i guess eta isn't tracking ghc, but i think that's because of unviability rather than a specific intention to fork the language.)
- 9q9 7y agoI think the difference is that today nobody is preventing you from forcing GHC or adding features, while back in the early 1990s, Research Software Ltd, the company creating Miranda, would probably have prevented others from forking Miranda. 30 years ago, the value of open source and the network effect for programming languages was not widely understood. In particular, giving away from free and without restrictions a company's core IP was inconceivable for traditional businesses!