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If there is no non-strict, purely functional programming language on platform X, nobody is apparently disappointed. If there is one, and if it were very differ
by voxfrege 14y ago
If there is no non-strict, purely functional programming language on platform X, nobody is apparently disappointed.
If there is one, and if it were very different from Haskell, people would complain: Couldn't you make it more like Haskell, so that people don't need to learn the many differences?
If there is one, and if it is not very different from Haskell (so much so, in fact, that many Haskell sources will just compile), people will be disappointed because it is not standard Haskell. In fact, the fewer differences there are, the more complaints.
If it were fully fledged Haskell-2010, people would complain: Where is GHC extension XY? How is Haskell-2010 any good these days?
You never can make everyone happy, no matter what you do.