
Kevin Jardine notices "the full Haskell ecosystem ... is huge", and laments the absence of "a sophisticated IDE to help manage" it. Being a small-code type, I don't personally enjoy IDE's, which are undeniably useful in big projects, at the cost of a whole lot more to learn about "programmering" in addition to programming. Nevertheless, I share Jardine's concern about the central problem. It is hard to find one's way in this ecosystem. It needn't be, as Java illustrates. To my mind Java's great contribution to the world is its library index--light years ahead of typical "documentation" one finds at haskell.org, which lacks the guiding hand of a flesh-and-blood librarian. In this matter, it seems, industrial curation can achieve clarity more easily than open source. (To avoid entanglement with social media, this comment is going to Haskell Cafe rather than Google+ where other comments reside.) Doug McIlroy