2011/5/19 Andrew Coppin
http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
Some of you might have seen this. Here's the short version:
Lisp is so powerful that it discourages reuse. Why search for and reuse an existing implementation, when it's so trivially easy to reimplement exactly what you want yourself? The net result is a maze of incompatible libraries which each solve a different 80% of the same problem.
To all the people who look at Hackage, see that there are 6 different libraries for processing Unicode text files, and claim that this is somehow a *good* thing, I offer the above essay as a counter-example.
Hi Andrew, So what exactly is the problem on hackage and what do you propose as a solution? Surely you don't want people to upload a library on hackage only once it is perfect (nor do you think such a perfect, one-size-fits-all library might exist)? I haven't read the provided link but I also guess you don't _really_ mean that the referred packages on hackage were 'so trivially easy to reimplement', nor that it is not possible to use them together... Cheers, Thu