Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: a newbies confusion with repositories - darcs or git

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Trent W. Buck wrote:

Eric Kow writes:

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One of the darcs team members, Thorkil Naur, felt that in my enthusiasm I was not being sufficiently forthright about darcs's shortcomings.

As for me, I tend to start any review with a list of all the problems I have with <technology>, on the basis that it's a lot harder to find informed criticism of a technology than it is to find praise (informed or otherwise). So I would write an article "Why you shouldn't choose Darcs", and let readers decide whether the arguments are inadequate.

In general, I also find it more difficult to retrieve well-founded criticism than to find praise. I like to cite Edsger Dijkstra on this topic: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EWD956.html "Address to my students" http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498.html "How do we tell truths that might hurt?"