On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Ben Millwood <hask...@benmachine.co.uk> wrote: > Besides, I'd think that often what Haskell developers lack is time > more than skill - there are plenty of tasks that could be done without > advanced knowledge of deep abstractions, if only someone could put > aside a few weekends for them. For example, writing low-level FFI > bindings is almost mechanical (i.e. requires basically no actual > ingenuity) with the right tools, but it takes time and effort, so > libraries go unbound.
It's more than just that; when talking about libraries for some specific task, what matters most is actually the language-agnostic knowledge of the task itself. Particularly in the case of IO-oriented libraries with lots of FFI bindings, someone who knows the underlying C library (or what-have-you) inside and out is probably going to get the best results from writing a library, even with little knowledge of Haskell. - C. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe