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Haskell 2010 Announced

Posted by kdawson on from the eddie-and-the-beav dept.

paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."

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  1. Amazing day... by AnotherShep · · Score: 4, Funny

    And all three of its users are overjoyed.

  2. Reminds me of Life of Brian... by migla · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The current committee is still discussing how to go about finding a new committee"

    A fitting name for this Haskell programming language might have been "Python" hadn't it all ready been taken.

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    1. Re:Reminds me of Life of Brian... by schon · · Score: 3, Funny

      A fitting name for this Haskell programming language might have been "Python" hadn't it all ready been taken.

      Actually, naming it "Python" would be doubly-fitting.. in fact, I think we should rename *all* programming languages "Python", just so it doesn't get confusing :)

    2. Re:Reminds me of Life of Brian... by acheron12 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Welcome to the programming language department. Bruce here teaches Python, the object oriented dynamically typed language. Bruce teaches Python the lazy functional language, while Bruce teaches postfix Python. And then there's Bruce who teaches s-expression Python and is in charge of the snake dip.

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    3. Re:Reminds me of Life of Brian... by Pseudonym · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well that's one way to ensure that Python retains lambdas, map and filter.

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  3. But I'm lazy... by nweaver · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I don't think I'll look at the article until I actually need to program in Haskel....

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  4. Oh, be still my heart.... by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haskell! Haskell! Every geek's favorite mental masturbation toy!

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  5. Re:Concurrency? by AnotherShep · · Score: 4, Funny

    They figure if they make it good enough, more than one person will code in it at a time.

  6. Re:Is it just me ? by ascari · · Score: 5, Funny

    "recursive style" Definition: Curse. And then curse again.

  7. Re:Is it just me ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Car analogies are simpler.

  8. Re:Is it just me ? by unitron · · Score: 2, Funny

    See: Recursive

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