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> These are professors and language experts, so I'm a bit surprised by the presentation. I am not surprised by this at all. If they really want to create somet
by auggierose 4y ago
> These are professors and language experts, so I'm a bit surprised by the presentation.
I am not surprised by this at all. If they really want to create something practical, I would rather employ the creator of Turbo Pascal, than one of the creators of Haskell. To me it seems as SPJ et al. are taking the money to do something fun and interesting, and scratching an itch they had for some time. Nothing wrong with that, but don't expect something that will be useful anytime soon.
- epolanski 4y agoLabeling someone who's had an immense impact on making strict static functional programming mainstream and relevant in the industry as unfit to developing such a language seems quite out of place. SPJ has been implementing features that the industry and real world users wanted in Haskell for decades and yet you expect his cooperation with another great dev and business person like Sweeney to be fooling around and not produce "anything useful anytime soon"? I recommend you reading the transcript of one of the latest SPJ's podcasts, he speaks both about the role of languages in the real world and about Sweeney's project: https://haskell.foundation/podcast/11/ https://haskell.foundation/podcast/11/
- auggierose 4y agoWe can revisit your comment in 10 years, and I'll be happy to have been wrong. Undoubtedly there will be interesting research arising out of this. Let's see how many people will be programming in Verse by then.