What about hoogle/hayoo and hackage? On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Doug McIlroy <d...@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote: > Kevin Jardine notices "the full Haskell ecosystem ... is huge", and > laments the absence of "a sophisticated IDE to help manage" it. > Being a small-code type, I don't personally enjoy IDE's, which > are undeniably useful in big projects, at the cost of a whole lot > more to learn about "programmering" in addition to programming. > > Nevertheless, I share Jardine's concern about the central problem. > It is hard to find one's way in this ecosystem. It needn't be, > as Java illustrates. To my mind Java's great contribution to the > world is its library index--light years ahead of typical > "documentation" one finds at haskell.org, which lacks the guiding > hand of a flesh-and-blood librarian. In this matter, it > seems, industrial curation can achieve clarity more easily than > open source. > > (To avoid entanglement with social media, this comment is going > to Haskell Cafe rather than Google+ where other comments reside.) > > Doug McIlroy > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
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