We have two groups of "leaders", with partially opposing goals. This is a disaster looking for an excuse to happen.
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Harendra Kumar <harendra.ku...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6 February 2018 at 00:33, Sergiu Ivanov <siva...@colimite.fr> wrote: > >> Thus quoth Harendra Kumar on Mon Feb 05 2018 at 18:30 (+0100): >> > Yes, Hayoo seems to be giving better results, I found more variants >> having >> > the behavior I want, it seems this variant is quite popular but still >> not >> > in any standard libraries. >> > >> > Interestingly the problem of too many choices and no standard one that >> can >> > be discovered applies to search engines as well. In this case there are >> > only two choices but still it is of the same nature. I knew about hayoo >> but >> > forgot to use it in this case. How much time should one spend on >> finding a >> > trivial function before giving up and making the choice to write their >> own? >> > I wish there was a standard, quick, good quality way of discovering >> what to >> > use. It seems the Haskell ecosystem DNA encourages more and more >> > fragmentation rather than consolidation. I think the community/leaders >> > should acknowledge this problem and work on making things better in the >> > short/long run. >> >> A Single Liberal Unified Registry of Haskell Packages (SLUPR), an effort >> in this direction, has been recently announced: >> > > Unfortunately, in my opinion, SLURP is taking things exactly in the > opposite direction. I was talking about the problem of choice above and > SLURP is giving even more choices and therefore encouraging more > fragmentation. We should have just one good choice to stop wasting time and > energy finding the best choice among millions available. Everyone should > focus on making that one choice better rather spending energy in creating > their own alternatives. This is where the Haskell ecosystem philosophy > differs, it provides many choices in all aspects, it may be good in some > cases but not always. SLURP is a technology solution which exactly fits in > the same DNA. Technology can help us achieve the tasks that we set out to > do but technology cannot motivate and influence us in what we choose to do > and therefore ti cannot make the community focus on one goal - that > requires real people leadership. If we do not focus on one goal, even with > the best technology we may not succeed. Just my 2 cents. > > -harendra > > > >> >> >> > -harendra >> > >> > On 5 February 2018 at 22:02, Sergiu Ivanov <siva...@colimite.fr> wrote: >> > >> >> Hello Harendra, >> >> >> >> Thus quoth Harendra Kumar on Mon Feb 05 2018 at 16:43 (+0100): >> >> > >> >> > The irony is that theoretically you can find a Haskell package or >> >> > implementation of whatever you can imagine but quite often it takes >> more >> >> > time to discover it than writing your own. >> >> >> >> Sometimes Hayoo! helps me out in such situations: >> >> >> >> http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=groupBy >> >> >> >> utility-ht shows up. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Sergiu >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sergiu >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post. > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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