Henrik Nilsson
Hi all,
Johan Tibell wrote:
On 10/03/2015 09:00 AM, Johan Tibell wrote:
Time doesn't go to infinity for us. Haskell currently has a window of opportunity for being adopted and bringing more functional programmers to the world. This window isn't very big, perhaps a couple of years to a decade. If we make programming in Haskell annoying by continuously breaking anything, people will lose interest in Haskell and move on to other languages.
Well said. That is also a major concern of Graham and myself. And it is not just people considering adopting Haskell who are being annoyed, but also long-standing members of the community.
That includes me. I have various pieces of software that I have written in Haskell over the years, and having fiddle with them pretty much every time there is a new release of ghc is very irritating. Obviously I don’t bother to recompile most of them every time, because one of the advantages of programming in Haskell is that I make fewer mistakes: so the code works and has done for years, but when I want to add a new feature or compensate for some change in the environment, what should be a 10 minute job ends up taking ages. -1 on the proposal. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk