On 2007-10-05, Peter Verswyvelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But where is the great IDE Haskell deserves??? :-) Seriously, 99% of the > programmers I know don't want to look at it because when they see Emacs > or VIM, they say "what the f*ck????, I don't want to go back to the > stone age". If you want to attract more people that are inside the > "imperative-OO-with-nice-IDE-blob", create a great looking and > functional IDE.
Bluntly, I don't see why the Haskell community needs those sorts of programmers. I like Haskell with a big enough community to have useful libraries, but a small enough community such that the language can readily evolve and serve as a useful research platform. > An IDE that integrates the existing tools. That shows you graphical > pictures of the graph rewriting process, There is a tool that does this for a Haskell dialect. > potential space leaks, That's a hard problem. > profiling bottlenecks, etc. I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, but people are researching good ways of profiling and presenting the results to programmers. > Heck, why not introduce pictures as symbols and values, as in DrScheme. Or as in Mathematica 6, to be a bit more mainstream. > Or UNICODE fonts. GHC already supports UTF-8. Vim and Emacs already support UTF-8. Done. -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe