<div dir="ltr"><br><br>On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 5:57:48 AM UTC+5:30, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">Donald Stufft writes:
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<br> > One possible thing to look at for prior art, is what Haskell
<br> > does.
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<br>I haven't done Darcs in anger for several years but I still follow
<br>their mailing lists, and it seems like the GHC people are happy
<br>breaking the world for Darcs every 6 months. Darcs is a relatively
<br>old member of the GHC world having many internal components that since
<br>have be superseded by "platform" modules, and apparently the style of
<br>much of the core code is considered idiosyncratic, so it may be an
<br>unusual case. Still, it doesn't sound to me like Haskell provides
<br>anything like the stability promises that Python makes for the
<br>language and the stdlib.
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<br></blockquote><div> Thats an interesting point to bring up.<br>Yes darcs is an old member of ghc world<br>And yes Haskell provides poor stability guarantees compared to Python<br>And since these two – stable language vs research language – pull in opposite ways the inevitable happened:<br>ghc junked darcs for git for its own development :-)<br></div></div>