stephan.friedrichs:
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
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2. War stories from real life. eg "In company X in 2004 they rewrote their application in Haskell/Caml with result Y". Again, for my purpose I can't tell very long stories; but your message can give a bit more detail than one might actually give in a presentation. The more concrete and specific, the better. E.g. what, exactly, about using a functional language made it a win for you?
We [1] implemented an ad-hoc chat system in Haskell in the SEP [2] at the TU-Braunschweig.
Wow! Looks like lots of great code in there, http://sep07.mroot.net/documentation/barracuda/ Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.XML Codec.Encryption.PKCS1 Network.GnuTLS Data.Heap Will we see this packaged for hackage.haskell.org soon? Some of those modules look very reusable. -- Don