[Haskell-cafe] Re: Building production stable software in Haskell

2007-09-18 Thread apfelmus
Ketil Malde wrote: Neil Mitchell wrote: DBM's can differentiate themselves on external database support, Surely this is an opportunity to focus development on a single library with broader support? Currently, we have HSQL and HDBC supplying incompatible low-level interfaces, supporting a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Building production stable software in Haskell

2007-09-18 Thread Simon Marlow
Adrian Hey wrote: Neil Mitchell wrote: Hi They are less stable and have less quality control. Surely you jest? I see no evidence of this, rather the contrary in fact. No, dead serious. The libraries have a library submission process. It does not follow that libraries that have not been

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Building production stable software in Haskell

2007-09-18 Thread Arthur van Leeuwen
On 18-sep-2007, at 14:10, Simon Marlow wrote: Adrian Hey wrote: Neil Mitchell wrote: Hi They are less stable and have less quality control. Surely you jest? I see no evidence of this, rather the contrary in fact. No, dead serious. The libraries have a library submission process. It

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Building production stable software in Haskell

2007-09-17 Thread ChrisK
Philippa Cowderoy wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Adrian Hey wrote: Ideally the way to deal with this is via standardised interfaces (using type classes with Haskell), not standardised implementations. Even this level of standardisation is not a trivial clear cut design exercise. e.g we

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Building production stable software in Haskell

2007-09-17 Thread Benjamin Franksen
Philippa Cowderoy wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Adrian Hey wrote: Ideally the way to deal with this is via standardised interfaces (using type classes with Haskell), not standardised implementations. Even this level of standardisation is not a trivial clear cut design exercise. e.g we currently