> Did I just read an admission that Sony Imageworks use Haskell for
> movie post-production?
Nice try, but I do not speak for Sony Pictures Imageworks. Whatever
things they do or do not do in post-production would no doubt fall under
some kind of trade secret thing and I would not mention them here. Kudos
to you for knowing that Imageworks is a part of Sony. You must be an
industrial spy!
Even so, you are inferring more than I implied. By "in my work", I mean
specifically that I use Haskell (and GSLHaskell) to develop algorithms,
prototype them, then validate the results of production code written in
C++ (and GSL).
As such, I couldn't care less about efficiency in Haskell. I realize
that this way of doing things may be considered "impure" to hardcore
Haskellers.
My full comment was actually:
> GSL is written in C, and I don't know any language more portable than
> that! gsl_vector and gsl_matrix use a continuous block of doubles, so
> you can use the FFI to marshall this however you want for efficiency.
I know it's heresy on this list to treat Haskell like a wrapper over
C/C++, but my experience shows that it has a lot of advantages, even if
the final product is code in another language!
This is the only argument for using Haskell "in the real world" that I
have found has any traction with management, so I hope people don't
disdain it while waiting for the day when the benefits of Haskell will
be apparent to all.
Dan
Dan Piponi wrote:
On 2/28/07, Dan Weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I like spending my time on interesting things, not reinventing
pre-debugged and efficient libraries. I use GSLHaskell in my work and
have never had a problem.
Did I just read an admission that Sony Imageworks use Haskell for
movie post-production?
--
Dan
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