On 2004-12-06, Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, these projects are mostly done by few individuals working hard and > there is also "A Bus Hits Simon Peyton Jones" problem referred during the > CUFP workshop. > > Any idea how to make a (more organize) community effort to bring Haskell out?
I think the two main things to do that would be: 1. Write Haskell code that has a wide appeal (example: darcs) 2. Fix Haskell weaknesses Haskell weaknesses are things I've mentioned here before, and refer generally to documentation and breadth of the standard library (or ease of finding/installing additional packages). The Cabal people are working on the library problem. I am too, by writing a bunch of code and also integrating a bunch of other code. (Once Cabal/Hackage is more mature, this integration could probably be split out.) Others have written a lot of good code; the HaXML, XML-RPC, Peter Simons' projects, Ian Lynagh's code, etc. all contain a lot of code with wide practical use. All of these projects would welcome more coders, I believe. Three of us also have a very rough start on a hands-on, practical introduction to Haskell aimed at the experienced imperative programmer. -- John _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
