andrewcoppin:
What *I* propose is that somebody [you see what I did there?] should sit down, take stock of all the multitudes of array libraries, what features they have, what obvious features they're missing, and think up a good API from scratch. Once we figure out what the best way to arrange all this stuff is, *then* we attack the problem of implementing it for real.
It seems lots of people have written really useful code, but we need to take a step back and look at the big picture here before writing any more of it.
No. My view would be to let the free market of developers decide what is best. No bottlenecks -- there's too many Haskell libraries already (~1000 now). And this approach has yielded more code than ever before, more libraries than ever before, and library authors are competing. So let the market decide. We're a bazaar, not a cathedral. -- Don