Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Lisp Curse

I think what Andrew meant is that it's not a good idea to have big pile of different implementations of the same library, and all trying to solve the very same problem. I see this kind of problem in the java community. It seems that developers have a need to create everything from scratch more than making existing ones better. Short history, for example, why do we have to have N libraries to read a file? can't we have just one damn good one? Cheers