Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: can Haskell do everyting as we want?

4 Aug 2010

      I think what the OP is asking for is a killer application of Haskell - Ruby,
for example, is great for web programming because of Rails.

The Haskell community is somewhat unique in that it has many killer apps and
that confuses people.  It's great for version control (Darcs), window
managers (XMonad), parsing grammers (Parsec), concurrency (would STM be
considered a killer app?) etc. etc.

People outside the community get flustered because they keep trying to peg
the language as more suitable to one domain than another.

To the OP, while Haskell is not perfect (Jeremy Shaw already mentioned the
garbage-collector issue) it seems as though you could get pretty far before
you hit a wall. So pick a domain and have at it!

-deech

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Kevin Jardine wrote:
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In my experience two of the biggest issues in selecting any language
are the pool of potential programmers and the learning curve for the
programmers you already have.
If you only need two programmers to do a project and they both know
Haskell well, then I think Haskell would do almost any job very well.
I also think that the pool of potential Haskell programmers is
growing. But it is still much smaller than many other languages.
I do think that there is a larger learning curve for Haskell than
moving from one imperative language (eg. PHP) to another one (eg.
Ruby).
In my view Haskell programmers are likely to be more productive and
produce more correct (and possibly even more efficient) code once they
know the language well.
Kevin
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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Alberto G. Corona 
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Just to clarify,  I mean: Haskell may be seriously addictive.  Sounds
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a joke, but it is not.  I do not recommend it for coding something
quick and
dirty.
I use it for quick and dirty stuff all the time, mainly because what I
want
is often something that can be broken down into stages of processing, and
pure functions are really nice for that.
If I know the input is coming from a reliable enough stream (like a unix
pipe to stdin) I can use functions like "interact" to create filters, or
parse some input, and produce some output.
It's pretty nice.
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2010/8/4 Alberto G. Corona 
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2010/8/4 Zura_ 
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As already noted here, Haskell is a general purpose language, but you
should
take it with a grain of salt.
For instance, you can nail with a laptop (provided that you hit the
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where a HDD is located), but you prefer a hammer :)
One thing is if you do it only for enjoyment, in this case you can
even
develop 3D shooter game in Haskell, but when it comes to
On Aug 4, 4:35 pm, David Leimbach  wrote:
like
place
production/real
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world use, I think it is better to maintain "right tool for the right
job"
attitude.
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Regards,
Zura
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Qi Qi-2 wrote:
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Is there anyone happen to come into any tasks that haskell is not
able
to achieve?
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: can Haskell do everyting as we want?

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