Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-05 Thread mikeb
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Frank Atanassow wrote: Frankly, I think it's completely unrealistic to expect to be able to fairly evaluate Haskell in 32 hours. As you noted yourself, Scheme and Erlang, being strict, are much closer to conventional programming languages than Haskell is, so it's easier to

[Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-03 Thread mikeb
Hi folks, I've got an interesting task this week for my job. (Note that this will undoubtably last for longer than a week). I'm evaluating several high-level languages as development vehicles for our next suite of applications. The languages I'm currently considering are Scheme, Erlang, and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

2004-05-03 Thread mikeb
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Bill Walsh wrote: I am amazed that you can even think of doing anything in a week. I have been at it for at least 15 years: one project; one dead set proof-of-concept . Well I'm sure you're doing something much more useful/worthwhile than I! =) I understand that the