Leaving Microsoft

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Post by protothomas » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 1:56 PM UTC

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by dbaupp » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 2:21 PM UTC

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.

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by mej10 » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 2:27 PM UTC

Does this mean that Facebook is using Haskell more these days?

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by smenyp » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 2:27 PM UTC

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 haskell only for basic lexing and parsing[1]. It would be tremendous to see them using it at FB scale. I think there's going to be gain for both parties - For FB, the publicity and hacker outreach, and Haskell - industrial reliability.

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by Narretz » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 2:32 PM UTC

GHC? Great Haskell Collider?

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by dochtman » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 2:36 PM UTC

Narretz wrote: post #5

GHC? Great Haskell Collider?

Glasgow Haskell Compiler.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ghc

Re: Leaving Microsoft

#7

Post by sanxiyn » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 2:36 PM UTC

Narretz wrote: post #5

GHC? Great Haskell Collider?

Glorious Haskell Compiler, actually.

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by wink » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 2:40 PM UTC

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.com/facebook/lex-pass [2]: https://github.com/facebook/pfff

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by bbotond » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 2:56 PM UTC

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".

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by gordonguthrie » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 3:11 PM UTC

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…

Pedant calling - Erlang is a functional programming language that has been doing very nicely thank you in a lot of big companies (Amazon, Facebook amongst others) for a good while now.