On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 07:51, Andrew Coppin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Also, I don't think listing every package on all of Hackage in one giant > > page is very useful any more. (I gather it was only meant to be a > temporary > > interface in the first place...) > > +1 (really +(foldl' (+) (repeat 1))...) — Hackage is *painful* these days. > <http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe> > i havn't a fscking clue how to implement such a beast, but i've seen (somewhere) tags that have their own heirarchy, so you could have (for instance) Image Stuff -2D -3D -Fractal -...etc... and also having multiple tags would help classify things, like a 3D Fractal renderer would be under "Image Stuff - 3D" "Image Stuff - Fractal" and probably even under "Math Stuff" (yeah, i know you *love* my technical names :P ) just my 0.02 cents hex -- > > Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I > > should use Linux over BSD? > > No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on > creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it > certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able > to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the > mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the > name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too > technical. -- Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux
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