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Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:05PM from the eddie-and-the-beav dept.

paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."

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Amazing day... (Score:5, Funny)

by AnotherShep ( 599837 ) writes: on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:06PM (#30219482)

And all three of its users are overjoyed.

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Reminds me of Life of Brian... (Score:3, Funny)

by migla ( 1099771 ) writes: on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:13PM (#30219556)

"The current committee is still discussing how to go about finding a new committee"
A fitting name for this Haskell programming language might have been "Python" hadn't it all ready been taken.

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But I'm lazy... (Score:5, Funny)

by nweaver ( 113078 ) writes: on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:13PM (#30219560) Homepage

So I don't think I'll look at the article until I actually need to program in Haskel....

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Oh, be still my heart.... (Score:3, Funny)

by gestalt_n_pepper ( 991155 ) writes: on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:15PM (#30219586)

Haskell! Haskell! Every geek's favorite mental masturbation toy!

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Re:Concurrency? (Score:5, Funny)

by AnotherShep ( 599837 ) writes: on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:28PM (#30219764)

They figure if they make it good enough, more than one person will code in it at a time.

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Re:Reminds me of Life of Brian... (Score:4, Funny)

by schon ( 31600 ) writes: on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:40PM (#30219894)

A fitting name for this Haskell programming language might have been "Python" hadn't it all ready been taken.
Actually, naming it "Python" would be doubly-fitting.. in fact, I think we should rename *all* programming languages "Python", just so it doesn't get confusing :)

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Re:Reminds me of Life of Brian... (Score:5, Funny)

by acheron12 ( 1268924 ) writes: on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:52PM (#30220052)

Welcome to the programming language department. Bruce here teaches Python, the object oriented dynamically typed language. Bruce teaches Python the lazy functional language, while Bruce teaches postfix Python. And then there's Bruce who teaches s-expression Python and is in charge of the snake dip.

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Re:Is it just me ? (Score:5, Funny)

by ascari ( 1400977 ) writes: on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @08:23PM (#30221082)

"recursive style" Definition: Curse. And then curse again.

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Re:Is it just me ? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @09:26PM (#30221590)

Car analogies are simpler.

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Re:Reminds me of Life of Brian... (Score:3, Funny)

by Pseudonym ( 62607 ) writes: on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @09:44PM (#30221740)

Well that's one way to ensure that Python retains lambdas, map and filter.

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Re:Is it just me ? (Score:3, Funny)

by unitron ( 5733 ) writes: on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @11:37PM (#30222488) Homepage Journal

See: Recursive

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Amazing day... (Score:5, Funny)

Reminds me of Life of Brian... (Score:3, Funny)

But I'm lazy... (Score:5, Funny)

Oh, be still my heart.... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Concurrency? (Score:5, Funny)

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