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by josephcsible·5y ago·view on hn ↗
We didn't throw away C++ back when the STL was no good. Why should the situation with Haskell be different? (And Prelude's problems are way less severe than the problems the STL used to have.)
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> We didn't throw away C++ back when the STL was no good.

You're not doing Haskell any favors by comparing with "the times when STL was no good" (when was this? 20 years ago? 30?).

> Why should the situation with Haskell be different?

Because the world has moved on and expects languages, their libraries and runtimes to become better.

> You're not doing Haskell any favors by comparing with "the times when STL was no good"

Huh, why not? He's comparing not equating, after all.

> And Prelude's problems are way less severe than the problems the STL used to have