The recent mailings about using Haskell for an accounting system got me thinking, since people have pointed out the things that would make the language suited for the task. Does this means there are some programming tasks that Haskell is great for, and others that you would pick a different language for? I was under the impression that it was more a "general purpose" language than a "niche" language--I'm using it for programming a decently ambitious (though small) game now, and it's bending my brain but I suspect it is fully possible even though games are traditionally imperatively programmed. Do you try to use Haskell for every project? Is there some sort of "right tool for the right job" adage you follow?
Jordan Cooper wrote:
The recent mailings about using Haskell for an accounting system got me thinking, since people have pointed out the things that would make the language suited for the task.
Does this means there are some programming tasks that Haskell is great for, and others that you would pick a different language for? I was under the impression that it was more a "general purpose" language than a "niche" language--I'm using it for programming a decently ambitious (though small) game now, and it's bending my brain but I suspect it is fully possible even though games are traditionally imperatively programmed.
Do you try to use Haskell for every project? Is there some sort of "right tool for the right job" adage you follow?
I'm using Haskell for everything. This may not mean much because "everything" is mainly shell scripting and parsing for me. For example, I wrote a small make -like DSL in Haskell for my website because GNUmake grew too cumbersome for me. Of course, I'm still using short shell scripts for bash commands and the-like. But my rule of thumb is that I write everything which involves a for loop in Haskell. (Unfortunately, I don't use Haskell for GUI scripting which pretty much requires a particular language (AppleScript).) Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com
Heinrich Apfelmus
Jordan Cooper wrote: [snip]
I'm using Haskell for everything. This may not mean much because "everything" is mainly shell scripting and parsing for me.
Of course, I'm still using short shell scripts for bash commands and the-like. But my rule of thumb is that I write everything which involves a for loop in Haskell.
Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus
Which haskell library do you use to interact with the OS/bash, and do shell scripting ? Thanks, Alain
Alain Cremieux wrote:
Heinrich Apfelmus writes:
I'm using Haskell for everything. This may not mean much because "everything" is mainly shell scripting and parsing for me.
Of course, I'm still using short shell scripts for bash commands and the-like. But my rule of thumb is that I write everything which involves a for loop in Haskell.
Which haskell library do you use to interact with the OS/bash, and do shell scripting ?
So far, I got by with the small System.Cmd module from the process library which is included in the Haskell Platform. If you need to capture stdin and stdout , you may want to look at System.Process from the same library instead. Other libraries are available on hackage, too, like John Goerzen's (of RWH fame) package HSH : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HSH Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com
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