On Thursday, 2003-07-24, 10:23, CEST, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
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Bottom of the list is: - functionality - native look and feel
Did native look-and-feel really have such a low priority?
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I think it'd be fine to pick *one* library (Wx, Motif, X11, Tk, whatever) and allow that to influence the design of what gets exposed to the Haskell programmer. Apart from anything else, it makes life easier by taking a lot of design decisions (for better or worse) out of our hands. Once an underlying library is chosen, many things get fixed.
I'm not against sexy, interesting designs built by one person -- far from it -- but I desperately want One Thing that is multiply supported, even if the One Thing is not very sexy.
Well, people probably won't use the interesting alternative libraries because they have a standard platform. The problem I see is that we get a not so well designed standard interface and better approaches just don't have a chance to get widely used.
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Simon
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