On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:59:54 -0800, Don Stewart d...@galois.com
wrote:
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Protect_the_community
Random notes on how to maintain tone, focus and productivity in an
online community I took a few years ago.
Might be some material there if anyone's seeking to help ensure
we remain a constructive, effective community.
To quote Simon Peyton-Jones (see the fourth unbolded paragraph in
Computerworld - The A-Z of Programming Languages: Haskell at
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/261007/-z_programming_languages_haskell?pp=10);
viz.:
What I’m really trying to say is that the fact Haskell hasn’t become a
real mainstream programming language, used by millions of developers,
has allowed us to become much more nimble, and from a research point
of view, that’s great. We have lots of users so we get lots of experience
from them. What you want is to have a lot of users but not too many
from a research point of view -- hence the avoid success at all costs.
Avoid success at all costs!
-- Benjamin L. Russell
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