Hello Don, Thursday, October 2, 2008, 12:07:47 PM, you wrote:
Don, I usually agree with almost everything you say -- but not this!
and i usually answer only in those few cases when i disagree ;)
My point was really that investing the effort required to get nhc98 into the shape that we could actually use it to ship the kind of code that we do with GHC -- to make nhc98 a GHC competitor product -- would not be as an efficient use of our researchers and engineers.
imho it's true for short-term, false for a longer terms. we need different haskell platforms, otherwise haskell will eventually die, and core libraries such as FPS are essential part of these platforms and according to my experience, writing s/w in portable way is easy if you care about it from the beginning of project. adding portability later costs much more -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com