
11: Simon Peyton Jones
The Haskell Interlude
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Will the Haskell Community Go Along With Such a Fork in the Road?
I got a danger for having one Haskell community that has one language and, and lead to a fork in the road where there is all my language extension flags. I think they're probably relatively easier to adapt to than say, um, getting used to the dozens or hundreds of functions that you might want to use in a program that makes extensive uses of lenses. So I'm actually not too bothered about that. Um, so I think it's easy to overblow these, um, these syntactic things. And maybe if we'd started off with after all, um, uh, NL has, um, you know, alpha list, because it uses post fix constructors. It's always
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