Burning bridges and Foldable nonsense

[harry]

Gabriel Gonzalez <gabriel439 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> If we spent as much time recruiting new programmers as we 
> did arguing over all this Foldable/Traversable stuff we wouldn't have 
> these problems in the first place.

As I think some have already pointed out, the needless duplication of
general and specialised functions, and other historical warts, frustrates
and confuses new programmers (they certainly did this to me).