Choosing a Web Framework/Language Combo for the Next Decade

Re:Choosing a Web Framework/Language Combo for the Next Decade by vishnugupta on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @06:16AM (#7777447)

> I used to be a bench chemist in a pharmaceutical company and the tools we used to develop new drug candidates and the tools we used to put them into mass production were radically different. I don't see why software should be any different. Let Haskell be the proving ground for new ideas and we can cherry pick the best ones for simpler languages later.

This is a very interesting observation. I would hazard a guess that Phil Wadler developed (or at least significantly contributed to proving type-theoretic soundness of) Java Generics and Collections after they sort of proved their worth in Haskell world.

Same with Lambda which made its way to Java 8. STM is perhaps next.

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Re:Choosing a Web Framework/Language Combo for the Next Decade by jacquesm on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @06:24AM (#7777468)

I don't think the credit for the java implementation of 'Lambda' should go to Haskell pioneering it and proving it useful. First class functions were present in lots of other languages, most notably the lisp family long before.

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Re:Choosing a Web Framework/Language Combo for the Next Decade by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @07:50AM (#7777704)

Generics also were not a new idea back then...and let's not forget Gilad and Martin, whose backgrounds weren't haskell.

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Re:Choosing a Web Framework/Language Combo for the Next Decade by dev360 on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @10:31AM (#7778423)

Does anybody know when C++ got templates?

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Re:Choosing a Web Framework/Language Combo for the Next Decade by dllthomas on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @02:28PM (#7779883)

Certainly before 1994, given that Stepanov was already writing about his Standard Template Library for C++.

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