Hi, Indeed, this has been long awaited. Long live Patrick!!! And continue the good work:-) However, such essential work shouldn't be dependent on heroic effort of an individual. If Haskell is to remain non-commercial a disciplined community effort should be taken akin to Pythonian. Perhaps also thouse of you who teach Haskell could better use cheap labour of students, after all Haskell's module system is not all that weak;-) Cheers, -A.J.
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Hi,
Indeed, this has been long awaited. Long live Patrick!!! And continue the good work:-)
However, such essential work shouldn't be dependent on heroic effort of an individual. If Haskell is to remain non-commercial a disciplined community effort should be taken akin to Pythonian. Perhaps also thouse of you who teach Haskell could better use cheap labour of students, after all Haskell's module system is not all that weak;-)
Yes, more libraries! 500 is not enough! The best thing anyone here can do for haskell is contribute a library. Latest packages: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.html How to upload a package: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_write_a_Haskell_program Join in! The more areas we cover with Haskell code, the easier the path is to ongoing development, and a viable, sustainable Haskell world. -- Don
On Jun 7, 11:21 am, Don Stewart
The best thing anyone here can do for haskell is contribute a library. The more areas we cover with Haskell code, the easier the path is to ongoing development, and a viable, sustainable Haskell world.
Hi Don, I cannot agree more but: (1) I doubt that your consistant contribution and sense of responsibility can be replaced by independent volunteers. (2) More important than the number of libraries is their maintenance and accessibility by which I mean not just sufficient documentation but also reviews with pragmatic suggestions and shared experience formated into some knoledge base. (3) Haskell attracts guys that like originality [ like me;-) ] which is dengerous since building viable programming environment should be a top down affair. Regular coders are easier to cooperate. Conclusion: Some coordination effort is inevitable. Complementary librairs should be chained and updated together like toolboxes in Matlab, which might encourage writers to dedicate domain specific articles or a book around them. Cheers, -Andrzej Jaworski
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