On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 17:54 -0700, John A. De Goes wrote: > It's a chicken-egg thing. A Linux or OS X developer tries Haskell and > finds he can write useful programs right away, with a minimum of fuss. > But a Windows user tries Haskell and finds he has access to very few > of the really good libraries, and even the cross-platform libraries > won't build without substantial effort. As a result, I bet it's easier > for a Linux or OS X developer to like Haskell than a Windows developer. > > I use OS X exclusively myself, but I'll ensure my first published > Haskell library is cross-platform compatible, because I think it's > good for the community. The more people using Haskell, the more > libraries that will be written, the more bugs that will be fixed, the > more creativity that will be poured into development of libraries and > the language itself.
I don't think this is founded in experience. The experience of the last 5 years is that the more people use Haskell, the more important backward-compatibility concerns become, and the harder it becomes for Haskell to continue evolving. Creativity being poured into a language doesn't do much good if the result is the language moving sideways, still less the language growing sideways. jcc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
