Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

30 Sep 2008

      kr.angelov:
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Don Stewart  wrote:
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There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions of
lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day
(though 12 new libs were released in the last 24 hours). That's 700 new
libraries a year at the current rate.
This is missleading and depends on how you count the libraries. For
instance "base" is now split into "arrays", "containers", "process",
"parallel" .... etc. In the same time on platforms like Java and .NET
this might be only one package.
Indeed, it corresponds to only discrete units of maintainance, in
separate repositories. There are no meta-packages yet.
haskell-platform will be the first,

    http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/

If we count via 'categories', say, an alternative grouping, there are 62
disinct categories on hackage, which would give an idea of what is
provided logically,

    AI (3)
    Algorithms (12)
    Bioinformatics (8)
    Code Generation (3)
    Codec (23)
    Codecs (3)
    Combinators (2)
    Comonads (1)
    Compilers/Interpreters
    (16)
    Composition (1)
    Concurrency (1)
    Console (2)
    Control (34)
    Cryptography (4)
    Data (72)
    Data Mining (2)
    Data Structures (16)
    Database (32)
    Debug (1)
    Desktop (1)
    Development (41)
    Distributed
    Computing (5)
    Distribution (14)
    Editor (4)
    Foreign (5)
    FRP (4)
    Game (24)
    Generics (5)
    Graphics (41)
    GUI (8)
    Hardware (3)
    Interfaces (4)
    Language (31)
    List (2)
    Math (30)
    Monadic Regions (1)
    Monads (8)
    Music (3)
    Natural Language Processing (9)
    Network (46)
    Numerical (2)
    Other (1)
    ParserCombinators (1)
    Parsing (17)
    Physics (3)
    Pugs (9)
    Reactivity (5)
    Screensaver (1)
    Scripting (1)
    Search (3)
    Sound (28)
    Source-tools (4)
    System (72)
    Testing (12)
    Text (76)
    Theorem Provers (2)
    User Interfaces (23)
    User-interface (1)
    Utils (1)
    Web (36)
    XML (11)
    Unclassified (21).

There are duplicates here, but if you can find missing categories, that
might give an indication of weak points. No "Real Time" package, for
example.

-- Don