If what bothers you is writing SQL code (and I could easily understand), you may wanna check persistent. It uses Template Haskell to generate for you the necessary marshalling and tables definition, so you just handle haskell datatypes.<div>

(^^ Michael just outposted [1] me).</div><div><br></div><div>For json serialization, aeson (normal or enumerator-based flavour) might be nice.</div><div><br></div><div>For brutal binary serialization, you may like binary or cereal (I don&#39;t know the dis/advantages of both, except that the last time I checked, cereal only handled strict bytestrings).</div>

<div><br></div><div>For XML I don&#39;t know, since use it the least I can.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] I don&#39;t know if there is such a word. Sorry, I&#39;m french.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">

2011/12/14 C K Kashyap <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ckkashyap@gmail.com">ckkashyap@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
<br>It has been on my todo list for some time now. I&#39;d like to write a GTD tool that has dependency tracking support. Haskell seems like a good choice for this. I was wondering if there has been any past attempts with this?<br>


<br>One thing that has been bothering me has been this - the persistence of data. Should I use sqlite(or someother DB) or should I use Haskell&#39;s read/show functions to read from and write to a file? I am slightly not inclined towards NOT using DB because I want to implement all the business logic in Haskell. I want to avoid having to generate SQL.<br>


<br>It&#39;ll be great if I could get some feedback on the &quot;read/show&quot; approach - is this even a viable option?<br><br>Regards,<br>Kashyap<br>
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