2009/10/2 John A. De Goes <j...@n-brain.net>: > On Oct 1, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Curt Sampson wrote: > >> And as far as something like dealing with a changing language and >> libraries, the mainstream already has well-established and popular >> techniques for doing just: agile development. > > A project manager's worst nightmare: > > "Sorry boss, but we're just not going to be able to meet that deadline, > because, well, a language extension we were using was dropped from the > language, and the syntax for some core operators was changed. Not only is > our code broken, but many of the libraries we were using are broken. Don't > worry, though, we're 'agile', so our unit tests will tell us when our code > is working again." > > Big business demands stability.
Hi, Of course, the haskell community is that immature. People keep dropping extensions without a thought for potential problems. And the package versioning policy is just a joke written for next april fools day. Sorry for the spoiler. Cheers, Thu _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
