17 Sep
2007
17 Sep
'07
4:26 p.m.
jerzy.karczmarczuk@info.unicaen.fr wrote:
Andrew Coppin writes:
Out of curiosity... what's so bad about "stagnation"? (Otherwise known as "having a fixed structure that everybody can rely on"...)
Oh come on, you know the answer, do you like provocations? Shall I remind how many people are unhappy e.g., with the Haskell Numerical classes hierarchy?... Stagnation is stagnation.
I guess I'm too used to Java's class library, which seems to change every 12 hours or so. That's no fun at all! :-/ If something is broken, it should be fixed. If something isn't broken, I see no reason to change it. You might call that "stagnation", but I view it as something else...