On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Isaac Jones wrote:
Garry Hodgson writes:
"Isaac Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Haskell' will be a conservative refinement of Haskell 98. It will
be the work of this committee to adopt a set of language
extensions and modifications and to standardize *a new set of
libraries.* [emphasis mine]
excellent. just please please please don't give short shrift to the
libraries, as this is what will make or break any effort to make haskell
more useful to the development community at large.
I entirely agree that Haskell in general needs a large set of libraries.
However, whether it should have a large set of *standardised* libraries is
more questionable. In particular, standardised libraries can't be changed
very easily.
What's the general feeling on this? The only mention of this issue on trac
seems to be "define criteria for including libraries", so I guess noone is
quite sure yet :-)
excellent. play close attention to the "out of the box" experience.
if i can install it, run the examples, maybe have some useful
command among them, i'm far more likely to invest the effort
to go further.
We can have a large set of libraries distributed with every implementation
without having those be fixed into the standard, though.
there's a threshold of effort required to adopt any new language.
the lower you can make that threshold, the more people will take
that first step.
Entirely agreed.
Cheers,
Ganesh
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