Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are you a Haskell expert? [How easy is it to hire Haskell programmers]

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

Felipe Lessa writes:

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There are many many other useful C libraries that we should have bindings to.  For example, Hackage doesn't have any MPI bindings. Could we write an MPI client in Haskell?  I guess so.  Is it worth it?

We might get some in two weeks time <shameless plug>at AusHac!!! http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/AusHac2010#MPI_bindings

That's nice! There are many interesting possibilities of high-level bindings that may be explored. I've mentioned MPI because I may need such bindings in a not-so-near future. I'll also note that having many bound libraries is also an advantage for newcomers. If they see that a library they use to solve problems in other languages already has a binding for Haskell, then they are much more likely to be successful and in a shorter time. I, for one, didn't have to learn anything new at all to use Gtk2Hs (thanks, guys!). Should we have only WxWidgets bindings then I would need to learn the Wx way before writing my first graphical program. (Alas, I've never programmed with Gtk+, the C "bindings", I've learnt with Gtk# and then PyGtk.) Cheers, -- Felipe.