[Haskell-cafe] The Lisp Curse

[David Leimbach]

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On May 19, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 19/05/2011 09:34 PM, vagif.verdi at gmail.com wrote:
>> Andrew, you are being non constructive.
> 
> It seems I'm being misunderstood.
> 
> Some people seem to hold the opinion that more libraries = better. I'm trying to voice the opinion that there is such a thing as too many libraries. The article I linked to explains part of why this is the case, in a better way than I've been able to phrase it myself.
> 
> I'm not trying to say "OMG, the way it is now completely sucks!" I'm not trying to say "you must do X right now!" I'm just trying to put forward an opinion. The opinion that having too many libraries can be a problem, which some people don't seem to agree with. (Obviously it isn't *always* bad, I'm just saying that sometimes it can be.)
> 
> That's all I was trying to say.
> 
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