2011/5/19 Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com>: > http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html > > Some of you might have seen this. Here's the short version: > > Lisp is so powerful that it discourages reuse. Why search for and reuse an > existing implementation, when it's so trivially easy to reimplement exactly > what you want yourself? The net result is a maze of incompatible libraries > which each solve a different 80% of the same problem. > > To all the people who look at Hackage, see that there are 6 different > libraries for processing Unicode text files, and claim that this is somehow > a *good* thing, I offer the above essay as a counter-example.
Hi Andrew, So what exactly is the problem on hackage and what do you propose as a solution? Surely you don't want people to upload a library on hackage only once it is perfect (nor do you think such a perfect, one-size-fits-all library might exist)? I haven't read the provided link but I also guess you don't _really_ mean that the referred packages on hackage were 'so trivially easy to reimplement', nor that it is not possible to use them together... Cheers, Thu _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
