[Haskell-cafe] Building "production stable" software in Haskell

[Andrew Coppin]

Adrian Hey wrote:
> Personally I don't really like the idea of Data.Map, Data.Map.AVL or
> any other lib becoming entrenched as official or de-facto standards.
> It seems like a recipe for stagnation to me. IMHO such libs just
> shouldn't be bundled with ghc (or any other compiler) for this reason.

Out of curiosity... what's so bad about "stagnation"? (Otherwise known 
as "having a fixed structure that everybody can rely on"...)




PS. If anybody *does* figure out how to build "production stable" 
software, in any language, please let the nice guys at VALVe know how to 
do it! :-}