2011/5/19 Vo Minh Thu <not...@gmail.com>: > 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. > > So what exactly is the problem on hackage and what do you propose as a > solution?
The problem is that you have to try several packages before you get to the stable point. The solution... I think that some ratings, like "used directly by ### packages/projects and indirectly by ###" would be nice, but not much. As for me, I like the diversity of packages. They attack close problems from different fronts. They express different ideas and views. I like all that. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe