Drastic Prelude changes imminent

[Alec]

On Sat Jan 31 2015 at 01:43:03 AM davean <davean at xkcd.com> wrote:
>
> Personally, I want a language thats good to use. That means constant
> improvement. My life gets better by far more then it costs me to update
> some code in fairly trivial ways when the language or libraries change. In
> fact, Haskell makes updates easy. Why should we instead build up the need
> to replace the language with a new one, how is that better? [...]



> [...] Lets not
> tear our hair out because someone made a bad decision in the 1980s and now
> we're stuck with it. I've done that. It was terrible. The world doesn't
> need another language that makes that mistake.
>

+1, Haskell98 is not a suicide pact.
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