dons: > kr.angelov: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions of > > > lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day > > > (though 12 new libs were released in the last 24 hours). That's 700 new > > > libraries a year at the current rate. > > > > This is missleading and depends on how you count the libraries. For > > instance "base" is now split into "arrays", "containers", "process", > > "parallel" .... etc. In the same time on platforms like Java and .NET > > this might be only one package.
Basically, pick a way to divide this graph of the libraries, and what they depend on, sensibly into units, and you'll know how many "libraries" there are, with distinct capabilities, http://galois.com/~dons/tmp/hackage.png -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe