<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Simon,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'd just like you to know that the Haskell 98 report, for which you served as co-editor, played a very important role when I was teaching myself the language.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In fact, I still refer to it from time to time, both in the language and also the libraries section.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Which brings me to your email earlier this month:<br><br><a href="https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2015-October/003984.html" target="_blank">https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2015-October/003984.html</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think that keeping the CLC and HPC separate has a lot of advantages. Most important of all is keeping the work tractable by fanning it out. And the track record speaks for itself: progress is made.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">While it made plenty of sense the last time round when it felt like squeezing blood from a stone assembling a quorum for HPC, wouldn't you say it's different this time around?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">There's a buzz of enthusiasm in HPC self-nominations that signals a very healthy community, yes?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Some of that enthusiasm spills over into issues concerning the standard libraries. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Now given that FTP is a done deal, wouldn't you say that it deserves to be canonized in a report too? Just like Haskell 98?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm not saying to do away with the walls that separate the CLC and HPC. I'm saying that today presents a rare opportunity for a unified committee to work at a report good for the next 20 years.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Wouldn't it be such a waste to lose the moment?<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
*Precisely* the same issues will arise whether it's CLC or HPC. And the HPC is going to be jolly busy with language issues. </blockquote></div><br><br><br clear="all"><div><div>-- Kim-Ee</div></div>
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