p.f.moore: > On 05/07/07, Jonathan Cast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Can't say I agree. I've been learning Python, and have been very > >un-impressed > >so far with its library coverage, which I would rate no better than (in > >terms > >of the POSIX bindings, worse than) Haskell. > > It probably depends on your perspective. I've found lots of tasks that > would be a simple library call in Python, but which require me to > write the code myself in Haskell. Examples: > > * Send an email
Sounds like a job for MissingH? > * Parse an ini file Probably have to write your own Parsec-based parser here. > * Gzip compress a data stream We have a wonderful library for this! http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/zlib-0.3 > * Calculate the MD5 checksum of a file In the Crypto library, or use the openssl binding posted a couple of days ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/24165/focus=24170 > > (Of course, I may just not have found the relevant library - that says > something about discoverability rather than coverage, I guess). Find more libraries on hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html > For bindings, Python's Windows bindings (pywin32) are superb, where > Haskell's are minimal and unmaintained. Of course, that won't matter > to you if you use POSIX... > > >The one thing off the top of my head that Python had was Base64, but > >that's 20 > >lines of Haskell tops. Aside from that, nothing. > > But that's 20 lines of code I don't want to write, and more, I don't > know how to write (without looking up the definition of Base64). > Having lots of these seemingly trivial helpers available "out of the > box" is what library coverage means to me. (And Python does have lots > of these - I don't know how Haskell fares in practice). > > I'm not trying to start (or fan) a flamewar, but it's interesting how > different people's perspectives on libraries can be... -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe