Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell and scripting

Well, it is clear that, for me, the dyre approach is clearly the simplest to implement, since everything is in Haskell. Maybe I could start with it, and see if it suits me... (Sorry, I know, ^^ I keep changing my mind...) 2010/5/5 Gwern Branwen

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Limestraël wrote:

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Yes, the xmonad approach is very neat, but I see 2 major (IMO) drawbacks to it: 1) The end-user has to have GHC, and all the necessary libraries to compile the configuration 2) A scripting language should be simple and QUICK to learn : Haskell is clean, powerful but its learning takes time

For basic customization, many XMonad users (judging by questions on #xmonad) have little to no Haskell experience and get by. Further, it's easier to step down the power than to increase it; because we use Haskell, it's possible to have simpler configuration options like xmonad-light*

* http://braincrater.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/announcing-xmonad-light/ isn't a very good explanation of xmonad-light, but I don't know of any others

-- gwern