ttmrichter:
On Fri, 2007-27-04 at 15:37 -0400, Taillefer, Troy (EXP) wrote:
I really enjoy Functional programming (at least until I try to do something serious then frustration sets in). I can't produce software in a timely and cost effective fashion without a large body of high quality, documented and maintained libraries.
I get the feeling that Haskell is for researchers to explore ideas ab out programming in but no one is interested in doing The grind work of cranking out useful basic libraries. I guess you need borrow some of those Java Chimps :).
Am I the only person on the list that feels this way ?
This is why we have: * hackage.haskell.org, a centralised library repository, with documentation and src. note that around 15 new libs are appearing each week! * libraries@haskell.org, for discussing improvements and extensions * haskell.org/cabal, to ease building new libraries Feel free to help out! -- Don