Re:Resigning from the Haskell Platform
by jamesbrock on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @08:37AM
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> What's the future that Haskell brings?
That's a great question, paulsutter. The great computer scientist Peter Landin in 1965 asked a similar question about the future of programming languages. To answer the question, he imagined a wonderful futuristic programming language with lambda calculus at its core. He named that language ISWIM, and described it in a paper entitled The Next 700 Programming Languages.
Haskell is essentially ISWIM with a Hindley-Milner type system added to it.
That's a great question, paulsutter. The great computer scientist Peter Landin in 1965 asked a similar question about the future of programming languages. To answer the question, he imagined a wonderful futuristic programming language with lambda calculus at its core. He named that language ISWIM, and described it in a paper entitled The Next 700 Programming Languages.
Haskell is essentially ISWIM with a Hindley-Milner type system added to it.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf
Haskell is science fiction from 1965. The future that Haskell brings is right now, the 21st century future.