On Jun 7, 11:21 am, Don Stewart
The best thing anyone here can do for haskell is contribute a library. The more areas we cover with Haskell code, the easier the path is to ongoing development, and a viable, sustainable Haskell world.
Hi Don, I cannot agree more but: (1) I doubt that your consistant contribution and sense of responsibility can be replaced by independent volunteers. (2) More important than the number of libraries is their maintenance and accessibility by which I mean not just sufficient documentation but also reviews with pragmatic suggestions and shared experience formated into some knoledge base. (3) Haskell attracts guys that like originality [ like me;-) ] which is dengerous since building viable programming environment should be a top down affair. Regular coders are easier to cooperate. Conclusion: Some coordination effort is inevitable. Complementary librairs should be chained and updated together like toolboxes in Matlab, which might encourage writers to dedicate domain specific articles or a book around them. Cheers, -Andrzej Jaworski