Talk:Language Comparison Table

Is Haskell standardized by some standards body, ISO, IEC etc? (Language report certainly does not qualify as a standard. All languages have reports, since Algol 68 times...) --Dmitry-kazakov 17:48, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

No, it isn't, but the Haskell 98 Report is the standard definition for the language -- all compilers support it, and all compilers have switches to distinguish between Haskell 98 and their own extensions. Like all C compilers support ANSI C. Compare to, say, OCaml, where the current INRIA implementation of the compiler is the standard :-) Or Lisp, or Smalltalk, with their plethora of different implementations. And since it is one of the design goals of Haskell to have the language completely formally specified, I guess one should mention it somewhere.

Is there any reason to distinguish between standards enforced by "official" standard bodies, and those enforced by, hm, "community standard bodies"? --Dirkt 08:14, 23 July 2008 (UTC)