Re: [Haskell-cafe] "Best" FRP package for newbie

Hi Arnaud, While not necessarily in line with the state of the art of FRP libraries, I can warmly recommend going through the parts of Paul Hudak's "Haskell School Of Expression" that cover the Functional Animation Library ("FAL", basically a light version of Fran). The book introduces FRP concepts gently and FAL is really nice to work with, at least when it comes to the type of code that is discussed in that book. Good luck! //Adam On Feb 17, 2012, at 12:00 , haskell-cafe-request@haskell.org wrote:
Hello, I am interested in exploring more in depth FRP. I had a look at the wiki page and started to explore "reactive" which looked promising at first glance and backed by quite a few articles and tutorials, but 1) it did not install properly on my haskell platform and 2) from the mailing-list archives it seems to have died a couple of years ago.
So my question is : What package would you recommend me to get my hands dirty with FRP? I am mostly interested in things related to music and network programming, if that matters.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Arnaud

As beginner I really liked reactive-banana. I used it in a inhouse
project for the graphical user interface (wx) and I found it easier to
use than the "imperative" approach. Unfortunately the
reactive-banana-wx package seems to be broken on 7.2.
On 2/18/12, Adam Duracz
Hi Arnaud,
While not necessarily in line with the state of the art of FRP libraries, I can warmly recommend going through the parts of Paul Hudak's "Haskell School Of Expression" that cover the Functional Animation Library ("FAL", basically a light version of Fran). The book introduces FRP concepts gently and FAL is really nice to work with, at least when it comes to the type of code that is discussed in that book.
Good luck!
//Adam
On Feb 17, 2012, at 12:00 , haskell-cafe-request@haskell.org wrote:
Hello, I am interested in exploring more in depth FRP. I had a look at the wiki page and started to explore "reactive" which looked promising at first glance and backed by quite a few articles and tutorials, but 1) it did not install properly on my haskell platform and 2) from the mailing-list archives it seems to have died a couple of years ago.
So my question is : What package would you recommend me to get my hands dirty with FRP? I am mostly interested in things related to music and network programming, if that matters.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Arnaud
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edgar klerks wrote:
As beginner I really liked reactive-banana. I used it in a inhouse project for the graphical user interface (wx) and I found it easier to use than the "imperative" approach. Unfortunately the reactive-banana-wx package seems to be broken on 7.2.
Actually, it's a weird bug in GHC 7.2 that break reactive-banana-wx. Watching the build log on Hackage is fun: sometimes it doesn't build, then it does build, then not. Fortunately, everything works fine on GHC 7.0.4 . Best regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com
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