David Wakeling writes:
Yes, Certainly. Here at York we have a small electrical hoist in one of the
Departmental stairwells which is used for lifting expensive and delicate
equipment onto the upper floor of the building. As part of an experiment in
real time functional programming, I wrote a Haskell program to control this
hoist. It proved to be a tricky exercise: the hoist is controlled by a number
of registers, and reading and writing these registers in the correct order
with the correct values proved to be a royal pain. Indeed, the experiment had
to be stopped after the accidental destruction of a 386-box, 16 wine glasses
and a large rubber plant during a UFC visit.
Efficient, convenient and reliable IO is one important area that we intend to
address with Haskerl.
Watch this space for further details.
David Wakeling (Chair, Haskerl WG)
Paul Hudak writes:
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 10:26:31 -0500
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For every bad story there is a good one. Recently Haskell was used
in an experiment here at Yale in the Medical School. It was used to
replace a C program that controlled a heart-lung machine. In the six
months that it was in operation, the hospital estimates that probably
a dozen lives were saved because the program was far more robust than
the C program, which often crashed and killed the patients.
-Paul
Fascinating stories. Would you please repost these on April 2?
I'd love to believe they were true...