enrico.santoemma@tin.it wrote:
When I met Java some time ago, I said to myself: "Java is a great language to write IDEs for the Java language".
Now that I'm looking for Haskell source code (perhpas that there is another way to learn a language than to spy on others?), I'm tempted to say: "Haskell is a great language to write libraries for the Haskell language"
Well... more seriously, does someone have got links to applications with visible source?
Define `application'... Many of the tools (not just libraries) for Haskell are written in Haskell: haskell.org/ghc haskell.org/happy sourceforge.net/projects/syntran (plug!) See also haskell.org/practice.html. Note that, of course, most applications written in Haskell are written to solve problems Haskellers are interested in, and most of us aren't interested in GUIs. More generally: Haskell is a great language for writing compilers for any language, not just Haskell; we haven't seen a C compiler, say, written in Haskell primarily because gcc has that market cornered. I would expect that the first major `real world' application of Haskell will be an interpreter for some kind of DSL or scripting language (I hope not, because that means I won't have written it, but I expect so). Jon Cast