On 23-Aug-1999, Mr. Laszlo Nemeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Hudak wrote:
>
> > P.S. I really like the idea someone suggested of maintaining a list of
> > open projects, who's working on what, etc. as in the Linux community.
>
> One major difference between the Linux community and the Haskell
> community is that in LinuxLand the reward is the name, recognition,
> while the people in Haskell community tend to be in academia. They
> want POPL papers! Putting your still half baked but most cherished
> 'BEST IDEA FOR YEARS' on a list may inspire someone else to write the
> POPL paper you wanted to write, which means no brownie point for
> you...
This is a problem with research areas, but not necessarily with
implementation, samples, libraries etc. It's difficult to get a
POPL paper for Yet Another Interface To An Existing Library.
But it's a still an extremely useful thing to have.
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