<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div>I've read the post, and the discussion it spawned on Reddit. I agree with a lot with the following comment there <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iopcx3/blog_post_be_a_goalkeeper_what_are_the_haskell/g4fvj7d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iopcx3/blog_post_be_a_goalkeeper_what_are_the_haskell/g4fvj7d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3</a></div><div><br></div><div>> I actually feel like something Haskell has always done very well is balance the concerns of people with different goals and motivations. [...] through its lifetime of serving as an academic research project AND an educational tool used in freshman programming classes AND and a stable language for production work</div><div><br></div><div>I have the feeling that people think that GHC is less rounded that it is due to the myriad of extensions one needs to enable to bring some functionality in (MultiParamTypeClasses + FlexibleInstances + FlexibleContexts come to mind for any class-based programming). This is one of the reasons I wanted to push the new GHC2020 "standard".</div><div><br></div><div>Alejandro<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El jue., 10 sept. 2020 a las 18:01, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee (<<a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org">ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear GHC Steering Committee<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dmitrii makes a good point about GHC in this blog post.  To discuss.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Simon<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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 a goalkeeper</a> by Dmitrii Kovanikov<u></u><u></u></li></ul>
<p style="margin-left:36pt">You may find this blog post useful, if you are interested in maintaining any project for a long time and keep your sanity during this process.<u></u><u></u></p>
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