Haskell and the Standardization Process

Hugs is the Haskell users gopher system, which was minor changes to gopher to match Haskell syntax. And it started at 87, right? I started in my doctorate in 87, yeah. And this is the year that Haskell also started. Isn't the first Haskell report 1990? Yeah, I think that was the,. I always thought that the committee was formed about a year earlier, but probably there have been some conversations, even like before that. It grew out of Iftw 2.8, which is the functional programming group, and I think thatwas around in the 80s, but I wasn't involved in it. What was your PhD? Algebra is for