Open Source Clean?
Douglas P. Wilson
dpwilson@island.net
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:07:07 -0800
OLIVIER LEFEVRE <olefevre@usa.net> wrote:
> although Clean is a very interesting system, there is little mention
> of it anywhere: the talk is always of Haskell, SML or Erlang. Maybe it
> is time for the Clean team to consider following the excellent example
> of the Erlang team and release the source?
The source is available for Haskell and SML, too, and I don't think it's
a coincidence that these are more popular languages. Learning a
functional programming language is a large investment of time that is
not undertaken lightly, and many people feel reluctant to invest that
much time in a language whose fate is in the hands of a few developers
at perhaps a single university. I think having open source would
go a long way towards giving Clean a following and supporters.
dpw
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