Hello Don, Thursday, October 2, 2008, 12:07:47 PM, you wrote:
>> Don, I usually agree with almost everything you say -- but not this! and i usually answer only in those few cases when i disagree ;) > My point was really that investing the effort required to get nhc98 into > the shape that we could actually use it to ship the kind of code that we > do with GHC -- to make nhc98 a GHC competitor product -- would not be as > an efficient use of our researchers and engineers. imho it's true for short-term, false for a longer terms. we need different haskell platforms, otherwise haskell will eventually die, and core libraries such as FPS are essential part of these platforms and according to my experience, writing s/w in portable way is easy if you care about it from the beginning of project. adding portability later costs much more -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
