On 10/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alistair Bayley</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:alistair@abayley.org">alistair@abayley.org</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I realise that a large influx of mediocre programmers will have a<br>negative effect on the community, but is that a reasonable price to<br>pay? I understand that may of you love a small, intimate, high-quality<br>community, but perhaps that will have to evolve if we really want to
<br>conquer the world.</blockquote><div><br></div></div>Well, it&#39;s often been said that Haskell&#39;s unofficial motto is &quot;avoid success at all costs&quot;.<br><br>See page 4 of &quot;Wearing the hair shirt&quot;:
<br>&lt;<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/haskell-retrospective/HaskellRetrospective-2.pdf">http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/haskell-retrospective/HaskellRetrospective-2.pdf</a>&gt;<br>-- 
<br>Dave Menendez &lt;<a href="mailto:dave@zednenem.com">dave@zednenem.com</a>&gt;<br>&lt;<a href="http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/">http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/</a>&gt;