<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 4:59 PM, MigMit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miguelimo38@yandex.ru" target="_blank">miguelimo38@yandex.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> So, in the end, the idea will probably be shot down -- but please, let's shoot<br>
> it down for a good reason, with a clear, irrefutable understanding of why.<br>
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</span>The reason is very simple, and it was stated several times already: it will break everything that was written so far, and there is not enough evidence that things would be even a little better.</blockquote></div><br>This is quite important, folks. Don't tell us how tools will mitigate this. Go look at Python 3's adoption rate --- and it does have the tools --- and tell me again how well that path works for an established language. (Hint: every Python package I use has no intention of moving to Python 3.)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Haskell may be new to you personally. That does not mean that it's okay to break what, more than 15 years worth of code?<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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