On 2004-12-06, Gour
However, these projects are mostly done by few individuals working hard and there is also "A Bus Hits Simon Peyton Jones" problem referred during the CUFP workshop.
Any idea how to make a (more organize) community effort to bring Haskell out?
I think the two main things to do that would be: 1. Write Haskell code that has a wide appeal (example: darcs) 2. Fix Haskell weaknesses Haskell weaknesses are things I've mentioned here before, and refer generally to documentation and breadth of the standard library (or ease of finding/installing additional packages). The Cabal people are working on the library problem. I am too, by writing a bunch of code and also integrating a bunch of other code. (Once Cabal/Hackage is more mature, this integration could probably be split out.) Others have written a lot of good code; the HaXML, XML-RPC, Peter Simons' projects, Ian Lynagh's code, etc. all contain a lot of code with wide practical use. All of these projects would welcome more coders, I believe. Three of us also have a very rough start on a hands-on, practical introduction to Haskell aimed at the experienced imperative programmer. -- John