Andrew Coppin writes:
Adrian Hey wrote:
Personally I don't really like the idea of Data.Map, Data.Map.AVL or
any other lib becoming entrenched as official or de-facto standards.
It seems like a recipe for stagnation to me. IMHO such libs just
shouldn't be bundled with ghc (or any other compiler) for this reason.
Out of curiosity... what's so bad about "stagnation"? (Otherwise known as
"having a fixed structure that everybody can rely on"...)
Oh come on, you know the answer, do you like provocations?
Shall I remind how many people are unhappy e.g., with the Haskell
Numerical classes hierarchy?... Stagnation is stagnation.
On a less serious tune: this "what's so bad" reasoning was the reason
why some political regimes could not progress and had to be destroyed.
Actually, it is not less serious...
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
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