[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: A rant against the blurb on the Haskell front page

Jeremy Shaw jeremy at n-heptane.com
Sat Oct 16 23:39:10 EDT 2010


On Oct 16, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Ben Franksen wrote:
> Still, "Haskell is an open source product" doesn't sound right to me.
> Even "Haskell is open source" (without the "product") has a bad ring
> because "source" is short for "source code" and source code is not
> something a programming language has.

How about something like,

Haskell has an open design and development model driven by commercial  
and academic research, industry users, hobbyists, and other members of  
the community.

Or something to that effect ? (I'm not wild about the word 'has'  
there...)

- jeremy


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