House - an operating system written in Haskell

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So it's slightly crippled, sometimes difficult, but always correct?

I don't have enough karma to downvote you, but I don't think this kind of attitude is appropriate here.

This is a pretty neat project. In the Unix era, people believed operating systems had to be written in assembly and that an OS in C would be far too slow or bloated.

I think he may have been making a reference to the character House on the American TV show House M.D.

As th said, it's a House reference. I think this project is great, and I admire the effort put in, but not everything on HN needs to be Señor Seriousface.

Egg on my face. The reference totally blew past me, and it's clever enough that it probably belongs.

Something cool like this used to get lots of discussion. Mainly it's just controversial stuff or business stuff that seems to bubble up and there's a fair bit of snark. I kind of feel like we need some more Erlang again :)

Being both an accurate House (the tv-series) reference and a flippant Haskell reference, it's actually quite brilliant and definitely appropriate.

Note that a lot of this work evolved into HaLVM and HaNS http://halvm.org

Er....Haskell User's Operating System and Environment.

Shouldn't that be HUOSE? :\

And I suppose you think the House Committee on Un-American Activities should have been HCUA? :P

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