On 13/07/2013, at 11:27 PM, J. Stutterheim wrote: >> - they then abandoned the Macintosh world for >> Windows. The Mac IDE was killed off; there is >> now an IDE for Windows but not MacOS or Linux. > > The good news is that the latest version of Clean[2] and its code > generator[3] now works fine again on 64 bit Mac OS X
Is that still the command-line tools, or has the IDE been resurrected? >> - other major features remain Windows-only > > The bad news is that this is true to some extend; the dynamics system is > still largely Windows-only. However, this is the only language feature I can > think of that really is Windows-only. I have never been able to understand why there should be ANY OS-dependency in the dynamics feature. >> - the available books about Clean are way out of >> date, several drafts of other books remain >> incomplete. >> - the documentation (like the Report) has always been >> rather amateurish and incomplete. Certainly >> compared with the Haskell documentation. > > An iTasks book is actually in the works, which will contain a fair bit of > Clean (although it is not a dedicated Clean book). There are also concrete > plans to update the language manual soon-ish. Not to be offensive, because after saying "Denk U" I have no more Dutch words I can use, but it would really pay to find a native speaker of English to give the manual a final polish. > >> - there is nothing to compare with the Haskell Platform. > > Actually, yes there is[4]. A misundertanding. "Nothing to compare with" is idiomatic for "nothing of comparable size to". Yes, you _can_ compare the Clean Platform with the Haskell Platform; it's a lot smaller. > It can be described as a mix between Haskell Platform and a mini Hackage-like > repository. There is no such thing as a Clean alternative to cabal install, > though. > > Keep in mind that there is only a handful of people working on Clean, while > Haskell has a huge community in comparison. Haskell has always benefited from - openness - multiple implementations - documentation _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
