what's the goal of haskell-prime?

Wolfgang Jeltsch wolfgang at jeltsch.net
Tue Jan 31 07:50:58 EST 2006


Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 19:33 schrieb Isaac Jones:
> [...]

> Have you looked at the Helium language / compiler?  It's a
> stripped-down version of Haskell for teaching.  Maybe that's what
> you're actually suggesting?  I think this is a great idea :)

I think the current Helium version causes too many problems because of the 
lack of type classes since type classes are normally used even with very 
fundamental things like numbers and value-to-string conversion.

> peace,
>
>   isaac

Best wishes,
Wolfgang


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