On 22 Apr 2003 16:21:36 +0200 Yoann Padioleau wrote:

"Simon Peyton-Jones" writes:

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Gentle Haskellers

Haskell has now got a decent, hierarchical module system, supported by GHC, Hugs and NHC, and the library structure is now quite well populated. For example, here are the "base" libraries shipped with GHC (similar libraries come with Hugs and Nhc): http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/base/index.html

Languages flourish when libraries are plentiful, reliable, and well documented. In an open-source community like the Haskell community, plentiful libraries depend on contributions from the community.

The difficulty is that it is currently not obvious what Joe Programmer should do to contribute a library to the community.

I think this difficulty is a major obstacle to Haskell's progress, perhaps even the largest single obstacle today.

I always find cvs difficult to use, why not put a wiki website for the library code where everyone could *easily* contribute. There needs some control, but simply not allowing a user to add some code that does not compile can do the tricks.

NO CODE WITHOUT DOCUMENTATION.

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