On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 01:19:19AM +0200, Wojtek Narczyński wrote:
On 13.08.2014 23:28, Alexander Vieth wrote:
Oh, please. Haskell is great for parsing, because you can build a parser with e.g. parsec, attoparsec, uuparse, trifeca, in no time. Even I can do it. Haskell is great for concurrency, because it has lightweight threads, STM, and a fabulous book about it. Haskell is great for GUIs, because.... how about you finish this statement, I don't know how to.
Before parsec, attoparsec, uuparse, et al were invented, was Haskell no good for parsing? When we speak of Haskell do we speak of the entire ecosystem, or just the language itself?
It is clear what I meant.
I think Heinrich meant that Haskell, the language, is probably capable of carrying a great library for expressing GUI's, even if we haven't yet seen it implemented.
Haskell, the language, is great for GUIs, because... "(it) is probably capable of carrying a great library for expressing GUI's, even if we haven't yet seen it implemented." This is too much, I need to sleep it off.
Perhaps you could give an example of a language that is "great for GUIs" and a great functional snippet of GUI code in that language. Otherwise we're just discussing in the abstract which tends not to be very helpful. Tom