Re: [Haskell] haskell communities worthy of academic study?

claus.reinke:

installing the extra libraries, other examples include versions of Data.ByteString _not_ based on the famous paper, _not_ supporting essential optimisations, or _not_ supporting API safety fixes). So

Lovely Claus! Do not despair about ByteStrings though. We plan to update the base library to the faster, stream-fusible ByteStrings after the ICFP deadline. We've learnt a few other essential optimisation tricks along the way too... -- Don