Hello Shae, Monday, August 14, 2006, 1:11:49 AM, you wrote:
- lack of specialists (and this means lack of teaching, training, books)
There's lots of interactive teaching and training on #haskell What exactly do you think is missing?
high school. while some advanced universities teach FP to students. most high schools just teach C++ or smth like this. at least, here in Russia students learn things that business was used 10 years ago while they should learn things that business will use 10 years later (and form this business environment!) skill raising courses. in my town, there are courses for Delphi, C++, at Moscow there are courses for Java, C#, perl, php. again, rare languages are out of luck books. there are tons of books that teach c++, from "C++ for dummies" up to "Using booost::lambda to create 24/7 apps" and no more than dozen for entire Haskell with all its extensions/libs. it's not enough to learn Haskell in deep
- lack of variety of libraries (application programmers want to have many libraries pre-written)
Which libraries do you think are most needed?
gui+db for standalone apps, i don't know exact requirements for web apps also plenty of libs that is used in any program: data structures, string processing, regexps, networking, concurrency, so on, so on
imvho, these issues are less important for system programming (such as creating of web server or CMS system), so Haskell, with all its features, now is a great tool for system programming. for example, i've written zip-like tool with ghc
FreeArc is way nifty!
thank you :) i thought that it is interesting only for Russian-speaking haskellers because all comments are in Russian even for this quite enough system program i required the following libraries: ByteString, Binary, filename manipulation and matching, string processing, advanced I/O. most of these was done at the moment when i wrote my code, but was not readily available, concealing itself in labyrinths of ghc, darcs and other apps :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com