Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

It's a chicken-egg thing. A Linux or OS X developer tries Haskell and finds he can write useful programs right away, with a minimum of fuss. But a Windows user tries Haskell and finds he has access to very few of the really good libraries, and even the cross-platform libraries won't build without substantial effort. As a result, I bet it's easier for a Linux or OS X developer to like Haskell than a Windows developer. I use OS X exclusively myself, but I'll ensure my first published Haskell library is cross-platform compatible, because I think it's good for the community. The more people using Haskell, the more libraries that will be written, the more bugs that will be fixed, the more creativity that will be poured into development of libraries and the language itself. Regards, John A. De Goes N-BRAIN, Inc. The Evolution of Collaboration http://www.n-brain.net | 877-376-2724 x 101 On Feb 25, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Achim Schneider wrote:

John Lato wrote:

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I really don't see anything wrong with using Hoogle to increase awareness (although I would appreciate it if platform-specific packages were searched as an option).

You won't hear me argue against it, in fact, I argued in favour of it. Increasing awareness of cross-platform solutions, as well as providing them, is a very different thing than demanding cross-platform support.

If 80% of all computer users use Windows, there shouldn't be any problems recruiting a decent number of volunteers to care about Haskell's Windoze support, should there?

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