Andrew Coppin wrote:
Adrian Hey wrote:
Personally I don't really like the idea of Data.Map, Data.Map.AVL or any other lib becoming entrenched as official or de-facto standards. It seems like a recipe for stagnation to me. IMHO such libs just shouldn't be bundled with ghc (or any other compiler) for this reason.
Out of curiosity... what's so bad about "stagnation"? (Otherwise known as "having a fixed structure that everybody can rely on"...)
What's bad about stagnation is that nobody will bother to produce anything better (at least not as a fully polished publicly available open source project), precisely because they have little chance of achieving a user base exceeding 1 (at least not if the attitude of David and Neil is typical of the community culture). Regards -- Adrian Hey