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

On 27 September 2016 at 02:25, Michael Sloan <mgsloan@gmail.com> wrote:
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.

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