I think having access to the parsec library would be a major plus that you can show off. Eg: you can have a RoR based email web app that uses parsec parsing to figure out which sections of an email thread belong to which author...
Best -Keith On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Mark Wotton <mwot...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been writing a little binding from Ruby to Haskell called Hubris > (http://github.com/mwotton/Hubris) which I think has some potential both for > making Haskell web apps easier to write, and also for bringing the more > adventurous Ruby programmers into the Haskell community. Code-wise it's > coming along nicely, and once 6.12 is out it'll run without modifications at > least on Linux (remains to be seen how long it'll take to get the Mac > patches into shape). My real problem is marketing: I need a killer app that > shows it's easy either to > > 1. wrap a kickarse Haskell library in a convenient Ruby web app shell > 2. speed up a poorly performing Ruby web app > > I've been badgering the Ruby guys in Sydney that I know on the second point, > but either none of them have performance problems, or none of them want to > admit it. The first is entirely possible - if you only attack the subset of > problems where your runtime is dominated by the database and network > latency, language performance is moot. Conversely, if that's your worldview, > the other problems that could be attacked won't ever come to mind (to > monstrously abuse the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis). > > So, I'm asking you guys. What are some really nice Haskell libraries or apps > that could benefit from being shown off in one of the plethora of slick, > mature web frameworks that exist in Ruby? Manuel Chakravarty suggested > something with vector operations in order to take advantage of his > 'accelerate' library (once it gets a GPU backend, of course), and more > generally, something taking advantage of Haskell's support for multicore > would be cool. (The standard edition of Ruby is still unicore, I believe.) > > Parenthetically yours, > Mark > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- keithsheppard.name _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe