Hi Dan,
This presentation is really nice.
I went over it a couple of times and I think this ppt will help me try
to use Haskell for things that I usually use Perl for :)
A quick question - import Process bombs on my GHCI(The Glorious
Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.3) -what do I need to
do for that?
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Don Stewart
Gaius:
My usual rhetoric is that one-off, throwaway scripts never are, and not only do they tend to stay around but they take on a life of their own. Today's 10-line file munger is tomorrow's thousand-line ETL batch job on which the business depends for some crucial data - yet the original author is long gone and no-one dares modify in case it breaks. So it is just good sense to use sound practices from the very beginning.
I gave a tech talk recently on using Haskell for scripting -- and it is built on the idea that today's throw away script is tomorrow's key piece of infrastructure -- so you better get the maintainance and safety story right:
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