Re: [Haskell-cafe] This is an interesting place to showcase Haskell.

It does not bode well that the first example I looked at (which I chose because it maximally would highlight the benefits of Haskell over other languages): http://en.literateprograms.org/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes_%28Haskell%29 has the following "Haskell" program. primes :: [Int] -> [Int] primes :: [] -> [] primes (n:ns) = n : primes (filter (\v -> v `mod` n /= 0) ns) Not only are there two conflicting type declarations (making this uncompilable), but after the "obvious" syntactic fix: primes :: [Int] -> [Int] primes [] = [] primes (n:ns) = n : primes (filter (\v -> v `mod` n /= 0) ns) primes (n:ns) gives the wrong answer unless n == 2. *P> primes [2..47] [2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47] *P> primes [5..47] [5,6,7,8,9,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47] *P> length . primes $ [100..200] 100 As there are so far relatively few Haskell programs listed (~100), perhaps an interested party might go through and do a sanity check on them. Dan Michael T. Richter wrote:

http://en.literateprograms.org/LiteratePrograms:Welcome

There's some Haskell there already, but I think a lot more could be shown there. Even code dumps of things would be nice. They can always be explained later.

-- *Michael T. Richter* mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com> (*GoogleTalk:* ttmrichter@gmail.com) /Never, ever, ever let systems-level engineers do human interaction design unless they have displayed a proven secondary talent in that area. Their opinion of what represents good human-computer interaction tends to be a bit off-track. (Bruce Tognazzini)/

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