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Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by pyre »

bbotond wrote: post #9
dbaupp wrote: post #2

It should be made clear in the title that Haskell isn't leaving MS, rather it is one of the lead developers of GHC, Simon Marlow.

Agreed. It should be "GHC Developer Leaving Microsoft".

It's the subject of the mailing list message (the [Haskell] being the mailing list subject prefix). I was able to piece together what it meant, but I know that a couple of key people for ghc work for Microsoft Research. I agree in general that it's confusing, but it's not like this is the subject of blog post that was poorly chosen. The 'real' subject is just "Leaving Microsoft".

Re: Leaving Microsoft

#13

Post by venomsnake »

Narretz wrote: post #5

GHC? Great Haskell Collider?

Well the strong type system ensures that no collisions are possible. GHC is quite the software gem. I love haskell more and more. Everything that is so simple to write, has no right of being so fast.

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by creatio »

smenyp wrote: post #4

FYI, Simon Marlow is incredibly big in the Haskell community and is the leading expert in Multi core parallelism via STMs in Haskell. Some of the work he has done for the GHC compiler is frankly fantastic. This is incredibly big news in the Haskell world. The FP community is starting to break boundaries with the industry in the last 5 years with Clojure (and Scala's functional support). Currently, FB seems to use has…

Did not expect that many companies from the Netherlands using Haskell.

Re: Leaving Microsoft

#18

Post by jeremyjh »

pyre wrote: post #11
bbotond wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. It should be "GHC Developer Leaving Microsoft".

It's the subject of the mailing list message (the [Haskell] being the mailing list subject prefix). I was able to piece together what it meant, but I know that a couple of key people for ghc work for Microsoft Research. I agree in general that it's confusing, but it's not like this is the subject of blog post that was poorly chosen. The 'real' subject is just "Leaving Microsoft".

And how would we know that before we click on the link bait?

Re: Leaving Microsoft

#19

Post by Yoric »

Wow, talk about a shock. I hope that this is good news for functional programming and the programming language community, rather than just good news for Facebook.

Re: Leaving Microsoft

#20

Post by fdomig »

wink wrote: post #8
smenyp wrote: post #4

FYI, Simon Marlow is incredibly big in the Haskell community and is the leading expert in Multi core parallelism via STMs in Haskell. Some of the work he has done for the GHC compiler is frankly fantastic. This is incredibly big news in the Haskell world. The FP community is starting to break boundaries with the industry in the last 5 years with Clojure (and Scala's functional support). Currently, FB seems to use has…

Please note that although the latest commits on [1] were 2 months ago, for a long while it hasn't been updated and/or usable to a decent degree. It seemed to have been deprecated in favor of [2] when the original author of lex-pass left Facebook. Sorry if any of this information is a little off/incomplete, I think it's been 2 years when I oversaw a BSc paper revolving around extending lex-pass. [1]: https://github.co…

The corresponding BSc paper may be found and downloaded here http://blog.seric.at/2010/07/19/automatic-anti-pattern-corre...
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