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The "History of Haskell" paper, a fascinating read in and of itself, is replete with admissions of lack of foresight. The reason Haskell has fared better than P
by hythloday 14y ago
The "History of Haskell" paper, a fascinating read in and of itself, is replete with admissions of lack of foresight. The reason Haskell has fared better than Python is probably only that it has a much bigger emphasis on trying new ideas in the reference implementation. The biggest problems with "Python" (GIL, FFI, standard library) are mostly issues with the reference implementation.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/history-of-haskell/history.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
- jerf 14y agoAnd where Python entered production usage in the late 90s and was building up a huge community and a base of code and continued building that base all the way to the present time, Haskell didn't really begin that until around the mid-200xs. It may be an older language in calendar terms, but in terms of libraries and tooling support it's basically 5 years old or so.