From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12018 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2012 12:13:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 12001 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Apr 2012 12:13:01 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-ob0-f169.google.com) (209.85.214.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:12:49 +0000 Received: by obbta14 with SMTP id ta14so3402763obb.0 for ; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:12:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.114.70 with SMTP id je6mr7542199obb.30.1333282368449; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.10.4 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Apr 2012 05:12:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201204010028.12013.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> References: <201204010028.12013.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:13:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [CT-NG] Future of the project From: Martin Guy To: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: crossgcc@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact crossgcc-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: crossgcc-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 On 1 April 2012 00:28, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > they have hired me as Chief Toolchain Officer in charge of the > Departement of Tools and Compilation at Microsoft. A few years back, someone published a similar AF for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) saying that it was going to become a Microsoft product. A couple of months later, Simon Peyton-Jones, their leading light, sold out to Microsoft Research, taking GHC and its development with him. I later attended a Haskell seminar in which the presentation about Reliable Software in Haskell couldn't use their slides because were trying to run their "reliable software" on a Windows laptop. I had to laugh! Later, GHC then became the first Debian package that couldn't be compiled on ARM because the code segment of its executable file was larger than 32MB. I had to cry! So good luck! I look forward to the "Build GHC" checkbox ;-) M (Actually, it would be quite cool if you were given that honour! :) -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq