Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] GHC is a monopoly compiler

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Wizek <123.wizek@gmail.com> wrote:

Although I am not sure a dictatorship would be required -- benevolent or

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otherwise -- but batteries would certainly be welcome in the standard libraries.

On 27 September 2016 at 02:25, Michael Sloan wrote:

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A bit of a tangent to a tangential conversation, but I wish that Haskell could move towards the "batteries included" attitude of Python's standard library. That is an example of benevolent dictatorship / vertical monopoly going very very well.

That was attempted. Everyone hated it and newcomers are loudly warned to never ever use it. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net