I've been somewhat frustrated by most of the things mentioned here and
so don't need to mention them again. (Most recently, just to see I
comiled and linked a haskell "hello,world", came up with something
like an 8 mb binary under Windows and couldn't see from the GHC docs
how to link dynamicly.)
I recently wrote a text editor (something new, eh?) in C# and found
that the docs on the .NET class library to be superb. That quality of
documentation on the Haskell libraries with examples would go a lot.
Manpower, I imagine, would be the issue.
I manage a group of DBA's at a bank and was toying with the idea of
offering a sort of lunchtime-learning thing to the geeks in the office
and seeing who would be interested in learning to think about familier
things in a new way. I don't get to program too much anymore, but I
very much enjoy fiddling around with Haskell, usually in some
integration setting, and was thinking some of the others may enjoy a
new outlook as well.
An aside: Philip Wadler makes good points in a paper I found online
about why people don't use functional languages.
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:52:43 -0500, Jason Bailey
Keean Schupke wrote:
A question with regards to making Haskell easier to manage (like say perl or python), does Haskell have an equivalent of CPAN... if not would it be a good idea to write one?
If haskell had a central code repository (like CPAN) then it would make installing a library as simple as running a single command (and you could have dependancy resolution too)...
What are peoples thoughts, good idea?
Keean.
IMHO I think this is a great idea. This is something that would really enhance the Haskell experience.
Jason
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