thanks .. ... just trying to get an objective viewpoint and see where the
"holes" are ...
Vasili
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Don Stewart
vigalchin:
Hello,
Frank mode on ... ;^) In terms of functionality, where is Haskell superior vs inferior to ML, Caml, OCaml, F#, Erlang, etc.? E.g. in terms of library functionality?
Without more information, all we can really do is an overview.
There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions of lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day (though 12 new libs were released in the last 24 hours). That's 700 new libraries a year at the current rate.
If I visit Arch Linux, I find,
602 Haskell libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/3jxlpl
21 OCaml libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/4fl485
7 Erlang libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/54oj7u
0 F# libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/4v53pl
Of course, this is on Linux, and your distro may vary (and on Windows, F# gets to use all the .NET libraries), but you get the idea.
One of the main themes that came out of the commercial users of FP meeting last week,
was the need for languages to start building standard, blessed platforms of libraries, and to encourage reuse. Haskell was in the nice position of already having such a process underway,
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform
Enjoy!
-- Don