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Simonpj 18:51, 14 July 2006 (UTC) Simon PJ. Here is an example comment

Typo on page 39: Another example is that Linspire’s toold must handle legacy data formats. --Neil Mitchell 15:23, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

On page 4 after the list of goals, it seems that the following sentence ("We agreed to base it on an existing language, namely OL.") should be preceeded by a line break (it now starts on the same line as the sixth goal).

JaredUpdike 20:38, 14 July 2006 (UTC) Other ideas for a title: The History of Haskell: Unsuccessfully Avoiding Success or something using the motto "Avoid success at all costs." Or perhaps Success Considered Harmful, or, A History of Haskell or Doomed to Succeed quoting Hoare (although this sounds somewhat self-congratulatory).

JaredUpdike 22:00, 14 July 2006 (UTC) Section 3.8, last paragraph, syntax error: should be "Miranda is still in use today: it is still taught in some institutions", missing word. (Sec 4.2 This tradition was honed by Moses Schonfinkel and Haskell Curry, and came to be called currying. I half expected a joke following this, saying [it was] called currying, luckily, and not schonfinkeling.) Same section, typo: is a list of lists should be in a list of lists.

JaredUpdike 04:27, 15 July 2006 (UTC) Section 9.2 misspelling "existance" should be "existence" third to last paragraph. Sec. 9.5 second to last paragraph. test bad should be test bed.

GaneshSittampalam 09:18, 15 July 2006 (UTC) Section 11.2.3 page 34 typo "unsagePerformIO".

GaneshSittampalam 09:19, 15 July 2006 (UTC) I really like the "eager to be lazy" title.

BerniePope 21:24, 15 July 2006 (UTC+10). Typo: page 2, column 2, "Rod Bustall" should be "Rod Burstall".

BerniePope 21:24, 15 July 2006 (UTC+10). Spelling: page 3, column 1, "confernce".

BerniePope 22:22, 15 July 2006 (UTC+10). Suggestion. Section 3.3, third paragraph. Rather than talk about "div" (are the first quote marks backwards?), perhaps you could say - "for example, Miranda's type system allows floating point values to be given to functions which are only defined on the integer subset of num, thus turning a static error into a dynamic one."

Hoan 12:45, 15 July 2006 (UTC) On page 33 it says that Ruby on Rails is a continuation based framework. I think thats wrong. PS. Its a riveting read.

BerniePope 23:53, 15 July 2006 (UTC+10). Expression. page 9. I says "Haskell did not adopt Miranda's abstract data types, using its module system instead." It is not clear whose module system it is using. Perhaps it should read "using a module system instead." ?

BerniePope 00:37, 16 July 2006 (UTC+10). Comment. Section 4.1, layout. It says "The rules are simple ...". I think this is a contentious issue. Recent discussions on the Haskell Prime mailing list [1] suggested a contrary view. How many Haskellers actually know the rules? Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that experience shows it is not hard to adopt a style of programming which stays within the rules.