Haskell's array libraries... are a mess. Specifically, there is now 
about half a dozen of them.

When I suggested that we should sort this stuff out and make one 
consistent library for handling arrays, the general reaction was "no, 
we're not going to do that. This is open-source. Competition is good. 
We're building a bazaar, not a cathederal."

Um, WTF? I just want to write a program that involves arrays. I 
shouldn't have to spent a week examining a dozen libraries that all 
provide similar-yet-slightly-different implementations of the same 
thing. Not if you want people to take Haskell seriously, at any rate...

I presume the remark is referring to the "cathederal and the bazaar" 
that is sometimes referenced in connection with OSS. Does anybody know 
what it says? (Presumably it claims that proprietry software is like a 
cathederal and OSS is like a bazaar or something...)

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