[bitc-dev] Retrospective: The Issues with Type Classes

wren ng thornton wren at freegeek.org
Wed Apr 11 14:51:19 PDT 2012


On 4/9/12 5:24 PM, Jeremy Shaw wrote:
> Possibly. Also, I can't think of any closed source Haskell libraries.
> Almost all the code is open-source, BSD3 licensed, and on Cabal.

There's closed-source code, it's just not on Hackage (for obvious 
reasons). In particular, Haskell is used in the trading and finance 
industry, and those folks generally don't like sharing their code 
(unless it's truly generic, and therefore doesn't affect the bottom line).

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Live well,
~wren


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