Fellow Debianers, I'm helping to organize the process of creating the next version of Haskell[1], and I really want it to be a language that Debian developers can use.
The Haskell programming language is more-or-less divided into two "branches". The Haskell 98 standard is the "stable" branch of the language, and that has been a big success. A lot of progress has been made over the last few years in the "research" branch of the Haskell language. It is constantly advancing, and we feel that it is time for a new standard which reflects those advancements. One of my goals is to make Haskell more suitable for "practical" applications such as those that the Debian community might find for it. We've come pretty far over the last few years in infrastructure. We're working to develop CPAN-like and apt-get-like systems for Haskell. Haskell has been used for practical applications such as Darcs, an advanced revision control system, and Pugs, the Perl 6 implementation. I'd like to ask the Debian community to look at Haskell98 and some of the "research" extensions[2] and give us some input as to what would make Haskell more attractive to you. I'm guessing that most folks should be able to pick it up pretty easily, though if you've never seen a functional programming language before, you'll be exposed to some new concepts. I think that the tutorial, "Yet Another Haskell Tutorial"[3] is pretty good, and you can apt-get install hugs or ghc6 for a compiler or interpreter. That should be enough to get you started. /join #haskell if you are looking for help. Please email me with any comments or questions. peace, isaac [1] Haskell': http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime [2] Some language extensions: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ghc-language-features.html [3] Yet Another Haskell Tutorial: http://www.isi.edu/~hdaume/htut/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]