I didn't understand what you meant, so I'll withdraw the Darwinian analogy. All I mean is: if you think the Prelude is inadequate, an excellent strategy is to write a better one. If it's better, people may start to use it, and your good ideas will spread. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Andrzej Jaworski [mailto:himself@poczta.nom.pl] | Sent: 26 March 2007 14:02 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones | Cc: Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org | Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] What ever happened to Haskell 98 as a "stablebranch"? | | >Haskell is rather a Darwinian sort of place. | | With whole respect. You need two components for evolution to work: the | survival of the fitness and Generator Of Diversity (GOD). | | Now, Haskell attracts originality and easily accommodates changes but nobody | burns tires in testing anything so that complexity and learning curve grow | while deficiencies remain dormant. | | Recent threads are a kind of healthy evolutionary pressure (survival of the | fitness), but you insist that Haskell should be committed to GOD;-) | | With great respect, | -Andrzej