[Haskell-beginners] Haskell package maturity

[Stephen Tetley]

I remember Louis as being quite active on the Libraries mailing list
as the queue package was developed and possibly was even keen to have
a priority queue include in the Base library "Containers". So I expect
the code is of pretty high quality and a quick scan indicates Louis
went as far as adding SPECIALIZE and INLINE pragmas for performance.
However, queues seem to be relatively unused but functional
programmers (Chris Okasaki's famous Edison data structures have a
similar "small" download count on Hackage). Maybe even the author
didn't need them often after they were written.

On 30 September 2015 at 14:29, David McBride <toad3k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ultimately when browsing hackage, there are a few things on a package that
> stop people from using them.  Louis Wasserman, no idea who that is.  Last
> updated in Aptirl 2009, boy that's a long time ago.  No link to his
> repository, no link to documentation or a website.
>
> This could be a great library, a real diamond in the rough, but there is no
> shortage of alternative data structure libraries on hackage that have been
> tried and tested.
>