Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Why Not Haskell?

2006-08-04 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Jason,

Friday, August 4, 2006, 10:01:31 PM, you wrote:

> 15. OO is now tried and true in industry.  I would say it's far from
> optimal but people do know they can build large applications (say
> ~100k lines of C++).

it's medium size. GHC is larger :)

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Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Why Not Haskell?

2006-08-05 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Kaveh,

Saturday, August 5, 2006, 10:16:06 AM, you wrote:

> 1 - monads : there must be something to make a clear tool for a
> none-mathematician programmer. (I still have understanding problems
> with them).

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/IO_inside and "All about monads"

> 2 - there must be an easy way to include existing libraries. There are
> many stable libraries in CPAN for perl, implemented in C for example.
> And why not to have a system for writing C in haskell?

what you mean?

>  Or an easy interface for using these codes without reimplementing haskell
> identities in C?

there is FFI and several tools that easy defining interfaces for C
libs. search at "libraries and tools" haskellwiki pages


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Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Why Not Haskell?

2006-08-05 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Bjorn,

Saturday, August 5, 2006, 6:59:33 PM, you wrote:

yes, thank you

>>> 2) Input and output are not good enough, in particular for graphical
>>> user interfacing and/or data base interaction. But it seems there are
>>> several user interfaces and SQL and other data base interfaces for
>>> Haskell, even though the tutorials don't seem to cover this.
>>
>> i've seen a paper which lists 7 (as i remember) causes of small
>> Haskell popularity, including teaching, libraries, IDEs and so on. may
>> be someone will give us the url

> Is this the paper you are referring to?

> Philip Wadler. Why no one uses functional languages. ACM SIGPLAN  
> Notices, 33(8):23--27, 1998.
> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/wadler98why.html






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