Hi David, no there is no direct relationship to distributed haskell. Quid2's focus is not so much on extending Haskell itself and its runtime to work in a distributed fashion but rather to provide a global naming system for functional values. Very similar to the Web, whose main innovation is to provides a global naming system for all kind of resources that previously had only local names (/dir/myfile versus http://ww.myserver.com/myfile). A description of Quid2 architecture will soon be available and it will be clearer how is meant to work. It will be far from complete, a working functional web will only emerge if many different ideas converge in a coherent whole. Best, titto

On 22 July 2011 15:57, David Barbour wrote:

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Any relationship to distributed haskell? http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gdh/

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Pasqualino "Titto" Assini wrote:

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Fellow Haskeller,

Has your strongly typed, quick checked, formally verified,  Oleg blessed, higher order monadic code become a little bit too predictable?

Are you feeling a bit bored, emotionally drained and disillusioned with perfection?

Longing for the days when Men were Men (and Women were Women for that matter) and squashed bugs out of Assembler code with just their bare hands and a line editor?

Enter Quid2 [1]: the half baked, barely tested, totally unsafe and spectacularly unoptimised Haskell in the Cloud system.

A delightful blend of Haskell crispiness and JavaScript fluffiness, Quid2 guarantees hours and hours of guilt free hacking enjoyment.

Let a soft lamb(a)da rhythm [2] take you over as you gingerly step onto the Haskell Cloud, it's time to party as if it were 1991 all over again!

Yours truly,

      titto

[1] http://quid2.org

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8mz9uOvFQA

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