Hi Mark, I know how frustrating and demotivating it can be to be on the dissenting side of of a change like this. Thanks for all of your contributions to the community.
Best regards On Tue, Oct 13, 2015, 06:36 Takenobu Tani <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Mark, > > Thank you for your efforts. > > You've gave us a lot of opportunity to meet haskell. > There are many people on the back side of the firewall. > They can't access over the firewall. > HP, all-in-one and web downloadable package, is very useful for them. > > Thanks to you, we were able to enjoy the haskell. > > Thank you very much, > Takenobu > > > 2015-10-13 12:08 GMT+09:00 Mark Lentczner <[email protected]>: > >> I think this is the right time for me to exit: >> >> The truth is, I still can't bring myself to use a version of Haskell post >> the Foldable-Traversable-aPocalypse, let alone some future Haskell after >> the changes now in the works. My personal machines are all still 7.8. My >> personal projects are all pre-FTP. The Haskell I love to code in, the >> Haskell I'm passionate about, the Haskell I've advocated for real world >> use, and the Haskell I like to teach, is 7.8, pre-FTP. >> >> It's not that I'm dead set against change and evolution in a language, or >> even breaking changes. But FTP and beyond are changes that have lost the >> balance that Haskell had between abstraction and clarity, between elaborate >> and practical engineering. I don't see any restraint going forward, so I'm >> getting off the train. >> >> This puts me in an odd position with respect to Haskell Platform: I find >> myself building the Platform for a version of Haskell that I don't use. >> This isn't healthy for either the Platform or me. Hence, I'm resigning as >> release manager. >> >> I am sad because I believed that Haskell's path to much wider adoption >> was within reach. Now, especially with the ramping up of the Haskell Prime >> committee, which seems preordained to codify FTP and beyond into standard, >> we are approaching our Algol 68 moment: Building a major language revision >> with less opportunity than it's predecessor. >> >> I'll still see you 'round at meet-ups and conferences. I'll just be >> coding with an older accent. >> >> - Mark "mzero" Lentczner >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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