[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] GHC is a monopoly compiler

[Michael Sloan]

Do you have a link?  I am not psychic.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Wizek <123.wizek at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Although I am not sure a dictatorship would be required -- benevolent or
>>> otherwise -- but batteries would certainly be welcome in the standard
>>> libraries.
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>> On 27 September 2016 at 02:25, Michael Sloan <mgsloan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> A bit of a tangent to a tangential conversation, but I wish that
>>> Haskell could move towards the "batteries included" attitude of
>>> Python's standard library.  That is an example of benevolent
>>> dictatorship / vertical monopoly going very very well.
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> That was attempted. Everyone hated it and newcomers are loudly warned to
> never ever use it.
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