Simon Peyton-Jones writes:
> Community-generated FAQ pages sound great, but
>
> - Some (standard? readily-available?) technology is needed to allow
> people to add stuff without intervention from the site organiser.
> The Wiki-Wiki-Web stuff indeed looks like a real possibility. I didn't
> know about it; thanks for the pointer. But someone has
> to set it up and host it. Any volunteers?
I don't think I have the bandwidth; I don't know where I would find time to
set it up; and I would be very worried about security of the server. Maybe it
would be best to use a dedicated server.
> - Would people actually add stuff? I'm a bit skeptical, but it would
> be great to have my skepticism proved unfounded.
Yes. Most of the Haskell I write is library code that I'm happy to LGPL.
Several people have mentioned the problem of standard names. A lot of the code I
write ends up as junk, when someone else writes it better or in a more standard
way. The rest tends to suffer from software rot, which partly results from
changing other code to make it more standard.
I've just been reading a paper (which I don't have at hand) on space profiling
with nhc. One code example uses a function called "tandem". I have a similar
function called "dropLen" (dropLen = flip tandem).
A convenient way to collaborate in building up a standard collection of useful
combinators would be very helpful.
Tim
