important news: refocusing discussion

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Fri Mar 24 20:16:01 EST 2006


On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:47:09PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> I think it would be a mistake to relegate concurrency to an addendum; it
> is a central feature of the language, and in fact is one area where
> Haskell (strictly speaking GHC) is really beginning to demonstrate
> significant advantages over other languages.  We should make the most of
> it.

Essential for many applications, certainly, but central?  How can you
say that?



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