Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude

Re:Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude by danidiaz on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:01PM (#11456129)

Sorry, dumb joke. Mahayana Buddhism is also known as "big vehicle" or "great vehicle" Buddhism.

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Re:Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude by burkaman on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:39PM (#11456422)

Yeah I got that from Wikipedia, I just don't know what you mean by describing it as "big vehicle". Like it's bloated, or too broad or something?

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Re:Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude by dsp1234 on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:52PM (#11456520)

FTA:

"Big Vehicle Prelude - Fix most of the deficiencies in the Prelude by introducing new abstractions that replace large portions of the basic types and class, and generally redefine the way we write Haskell. See numeric-prelude.

Small Vehicle Prelude - Fix the broken parts of the Prelude by building on existing types and classes and masking broken bits. See basic-prelude."

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Re:Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude by burkaman on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:58PM (#11456568)

Oh oops, I guess I skimmed over the intro

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