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On Haskell Documentation

The following started out as a response to a Hacker News comment , but got long enough to merit a standalone blog post. I think the root of the Haskell documentation debate lies in a pretty fundamental difference in how you go about finding, reading, and understanding documentation in Haskell compared to mainstream languages.  Just last week I ran into a situation that really highlighted this difference. I was working on creating a Haskell wrapper around the ACE editor .  I initially wrote the wrapper some time ago and got it integrated into a small app.  Last week I needed ACE integration in another app I'm working on and came back to the code.  But I ran into a problem...ACE automatically makes AJAX requests for JS files needed for pluggable syntax highlighters and themes.  But it was making the AJAX requests in the wrong place and I needed to tell it to request them from somewhere else.  Depending on how interested you are in this, you might try looking through the ACE docum