On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Michael Litchard wrote:

I will be going into a situation where there are tasks that have yet to be automated, so I will be going after that before re-writing anything. But if I can come up with "here's why", there will be less eyebrows raised. Thanks for all feedback so far.

Perhaps give this talk: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/practical-haskell/ Jason

Hi Dan, This presentation is really nice. I went over it a couple of times and I think this ppt will help me try to use Haskell for things that I usually use Perl for :) A quick question - import Process bombs on my GHCI(The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.3) -what do I need to do for that? On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

Gaius:

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My usual rhetoric is that one-off, throwaway scripts never are, and not only do they tend to stay around but they take on a life of their own. Today's 10-line file munger is tomorrow's thousand-line ETL batch job on which the business depends for some crucial data - yet the original author is long gone and no-one dares modify in case it breaks. So it is just good sense to use sound practices from the very beginning.

I gave a tech talk recently on using Haskell for scripting -- and it is built on the idea that today's throw away script is tomorrow's key piece of infrastructure -- so you better get the maintainance and safety story right:

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Thanks Don! On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

That's a separate module, based on System.Process --

   http://code.haskell.org/~dons/code/cpuperf/Process.hs

ckkashyap:

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Hi Dan, This presentation is really nice. I went over it a couple of times and I think this ppt will help me try to use Haskell for things that I usually use Perl for :)

A quick question - import Process bombs on my GHCI(The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.3) -what do I need to do for that?

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

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Gaius:

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My usual rhetoric is that one-off, throwaway scripts never are, and not only do they tend to stay around but they take on a life of their own. Today's 10-line file munger is tomorrow's thousand-line ETL batch job on which the business depends for some crucial data - yet the original author is long gone and no-one dares modify in case it breaks. So it is just good sense to use sound practices from the very beginning.

I gave a tech talk recently on using Haskell for scripting -- and it is built on the idea that today's throw away script is tomorrow's key piece of infrastructure -- so you better get the maintainance and safety story right:

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-- Regards, Kashyap

-- Regards, Kashyap