Helium II

Doug McIlroy doug at cs.dartmouth.edu
Thu Nov 29 15:00:19 UTC 2018


> Frankly after you've filtered out all that, I'd be astonished if you
> have anything left. It seems to be usual practice on Hackage to switch
> on a swag of LANGUAGE pragmas even if this module isn't using them.
> (MPTCs, FlexibleInstances/Contexts in particular.)

A depressing remark, which comes close to saying there is
no true Haskell. It's one reason I hang mostly with Hugs.
GHC pretty well repudiates Haskell 2010. May Haskell 2020
receive more respect!

Doug


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