>> Haskell's array libraries... are a mess. Specifically, there is now 
>> about half a dozen of them.
> 
> Not so different with C and all its derivatives (C++, C++ STL, C++ 
> .net), there are many different array handling "libraries", fun if you 
> work with code that uses all sorts of different approaches :-)

Yeah. It's a hoot. You use one library that uses array-X, and another 
library that uses array-Y, and now your program must waste time 
converting from one to the other. Great fun. :-/

It wouldn't be so bad if we were talking about complete libraries that 
differ stylistically or something. But we're not. We're talking about 
several libraries, each of which only covers about 20% of what you might 
like to do. But each library covers a different 20%. Which means you're 
virtually *forced* to use several of them at once... *sigh*

Apparently everybody else thinks this is "perfectly OK".

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